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Alexander Eliot
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So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
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John Gregory Dunne
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Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
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Theodore Dreiser
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Howard Dietz
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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
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Eugene Delacroix
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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Edgar Degas
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Salvador Dali
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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Salvador Dali
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Salvador Dali
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
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Charles Horton Cooley
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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Cyril Connolly
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Pat Colander
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In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.
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John Ciardi
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Marc Chagall
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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Marc Chagall
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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
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Marc Chagall
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
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Marc Chagall
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
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Paul Cezanne
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Willa Cather
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Hugh Casson
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Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
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Dale Carnegie
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Albert Camus
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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Italo Calvino
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Maria Callas
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I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
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Alexander Calder
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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Alexander Calder
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My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
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Alexander Calder
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I paint with shapes.
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Sarah Brightman
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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
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Sarah Brightman
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I have a love-hate relationship with performing.
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Sarah Brightman
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I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
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Erma Bombeck
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Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, How good or how bad am I? That's where courage comes in.
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Josh Billings
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Cecil Beaton
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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Charles Baudelaire
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Ellen Barkin
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Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
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Richard Avedon
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My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
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Ansel Adams
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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Ansel Adams
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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Ansel Adams
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There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
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Ansel Adams
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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