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Kenneth Tynan
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
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Leon Trotsky
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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
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Lionel Trilling
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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Judith Thurman
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This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.
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Twyla Tharp
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Jonathan Swift
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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Barbra Streisand
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Paul Strand
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
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Gertrude Stein
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Edward Steichen
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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Edward Steichen
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
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Edward Steichen
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
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Edward Steichen
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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Frank Sinatra
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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
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Cindy Sherman
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
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Ted Shawn
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Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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Robert Schumann
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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John Ruskin
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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Auguste Rodin
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
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Auguste Rodin
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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
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Auguste Rodin
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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Joan Rivers
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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Odilon Redon
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Marcel Proust
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
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Plutarch
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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Pablo Picasso
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My mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Pablo Picasso
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We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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Pablo Picasso
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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Pablo Picasso
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Pablo Picasso
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Pablo Picasso
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The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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Bernadette Peters
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You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
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Octavio Paz
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Thomas Paine
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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Anais Nin
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Henry Moore
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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Henry Moore
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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
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Henry Mille
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.
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Bette Midler
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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Michelangelo
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Marshall McLuhan
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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Daphne du Maurier
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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