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Henri Matisse
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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
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Henri Matisse
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
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Henri Matisse
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
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Henri Matisse
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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Henri Matisse
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I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
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Henri Matisse
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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Henri Matisse
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A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
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Henri Matisse
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
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Henri Matisse
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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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Mary Ellen Mark
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I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.
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Melvin Maddocks
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
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Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
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Roy Lichtenstein
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Roy Lichtenstein
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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
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Oscar Levant
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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Oscar Levant
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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Elmer G. Letterman
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You can't start at the top.
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Maria Lenhart
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The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
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Tommy Lee
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When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
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John LeCarre
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
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Fran Lebowitz
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Fran Lebowitz
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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Peter Kropotkin
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Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
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Ellen Key
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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Louis Kahn
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Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
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Erica Jong
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Elbert Hubbard
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
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Elbert Hubbard
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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Jenny Holzer
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The most profound things are inexpressible.
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David Hockney
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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David Hockney
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Anything simple always interests me.
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Donal Henahan
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The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
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William Hazlitt
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Helen Hayes
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I cry out for order and find it only in art.
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
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Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
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Andre Gide
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Paul Gauguin
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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Paul Gauguin
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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Paul Gauguin
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
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E. M. Forster
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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E. M. Forster
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Gustave Flaubert
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Federico Fellini
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Jules Feiffer
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Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
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M. C. Escher
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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M. C. Escher
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Henry Ellis
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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T. S. Eliot
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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