| Abraham Lincoln | The highest art is always the most religious, and...
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| Alan Rickman | If only life could be a little more tender...
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| Albert Camus | A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of...
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| Albert Camus | Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by...
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| Albert Camus | All great deeds and all great thoughts have a...
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| Albert Camus | Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the...
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| Albert Einstein | True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in...
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| Alexander Calder | My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under...
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| Alexander Calder | To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an...
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| Alexander Pope | So vast is art, so narrow human...
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| Al Capp | Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold...
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| Ambrose Bierce | Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from...
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| Ambrose Bierce | Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction...
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| Amy Lowell | Art is the desire of a man to express...
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| Anais Nin | If you do not breathe through writing, if you...
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| Anatole France | In art as in love, instinct is...
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| Andre Gide | Art begins with resistance - at the point where...
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| Andre Gide | Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,...
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| Andy Warhol | An artist is someone who produces things that people...
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| Andy Warhol | Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold...
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| Andy Warhol | Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever...
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| Andy Warhol | I am a deeply superficial...
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| Andy Warhol | I'm afraid that if you look at a thing...
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| Andy Warhol | In the future everyone will be famous for 15...
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| Anish Kapoor | Artists don't make objects. Artists make...
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| Ansel Adams | Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe...
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| Ansel Adams | The negative is comparable to the composer's score and...
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| Ansel Adams | You don't take a photograph, you make...
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| Aristotle | Well begun is half...
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| Arthur Erickson | Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as...
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| Arthur Erickson | Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and...
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| Arthur Schopenhauer | Treat a work of art like a prince. Let...
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| Auguste Rodin | I choose a block of marble and chop off...
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| Auguste Rodin | Inside you there's an artist you don't know about....
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| Augustus Saint-Gaudens | What garlic is to salad, insanity is to...
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| Barbra Streisand | I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and...
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| Bernadette Peters | You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone...
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| Bette Midler | I always try to balance the light with the...
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| Blaise Pascal | Eloquence is a painting of the...
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| Brion James | The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite...
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| Carl Rogers | The very essence of the creative is its novelty,...
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| Carroll O'Connor | Even a true artist does not always produce...
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| Cecil Beaton | Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that...
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| Charles Baudelaire | A frenzied passion for art is a canker that...
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| Charles Horton Cooley | An artist cannot fail; it is a success to...
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| Charles Horton Cooley | One should never criticize his own work except in...
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| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt | We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives...
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| Cindy Sherman | I didn't have any interest in traditional...
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| Clara Schumann | My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to...
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| Cyril Connolly | The artist one day falls through a hole in...
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| Dale Carnegie | The essence of all art is to have pleasure...
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| Daphne du Maurier | All autobiography is...
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| David Hockney | Anything simple always interests...
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| David Hockney | The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty,...
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| Dick Dale | Every song is like a...
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Motivation is the art of getting people to do...
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| Edgard Varese | An artist is never ahead of his time but...
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| Edgar Degas | Painting is easy when you don't know how, but...
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| Edmond de Goncourt | A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions...
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| Edward Steichen | Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a...
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| Edward Steichen | Photography is a major force in explaining man to...
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| Edward Steichen | Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the...
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| Edward Steichen | When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be...
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| Art is not a thing; it is a...
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| The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away...
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| I was the hero of the young insurgent working...
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| The writer, when he is also an artist, is...
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| Ellen Barkin | Acting is a matter of giving away...
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| The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art...
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| The artist is nothing without the gift, but the...
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| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage...
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| Ethel Barrymore | For an actress to be a success, she must...
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| Eugene Delacroix | The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves...
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| Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates,...
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| To make us feel small in the right way...
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| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only...
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| Federico Fellini | All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's...
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| Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in...
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| Some books are to be tasted, others to be...
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| Art depends on luck and...
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| Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the...
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| The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect...
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| May you live to be 100 and may the...
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| But, after all, the aim of art is to...
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| Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the...
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| Fran Lebowitz | Andy Warhol made fame more...
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| Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is...
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| An artist has no home in Europe except in...
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| Art is the proper task of...
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| The essence of all beautiful art, all great art,...
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| We have art in order not to die of...
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| Art is the daughter of...
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| Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter...
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| Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the...
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| George Edward Moore | A great artist is always before his time or...
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| An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of...
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| I found I could say things with color and...
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| It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time...
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| Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue -...
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| A writer should write with his eyes and a...
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| Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of...
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| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line...
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| Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and...
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| The man who throws a bomb is an artist,...
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| Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who...
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| Of all lies, art is the least...
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| The real art of conducting consists in...
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| Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is...
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| Hedy Lamarr | A good painting to me has always been like...
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| I cry out for order and find it only...
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| Hendrik Willem Van Loon | Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for...
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| Hendrik Willem Van Loon | The arts are an even better barometer of what...
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| The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a...
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| To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a...
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| Henri Matisse | A picture must possess a real power to generate...
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| Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the...
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| I don't paint things. I only paint the difference...
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| I have been no more than a medium, as...
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| It is only after years of preparation that the...
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| Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When...
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| What I dream of is an art of balance,...
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| You study, you learn, but you guard the original...
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| Art is man's expression of his joy in...
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| This world is but a canvas to our...
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| To affect the quality of the day, that is...
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| Every artist writes his own...
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| Henry Miller | An artist is always alone - if he is...
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| The waking mind is the least serviceable in the...
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| Henry Moore | A sculptor is a person who is interested in...
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| It is a mistake for a sculptor or a...
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| Books are not men and yet they stay...
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| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,...
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| If we could but paint with the hand what...
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| A picture is a poem without...
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| Howard Dietz | Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with...
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| Lesser artists borrow, great artists...
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| Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner...
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| Italo Calvino | A classic is a book that has never finished...
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| Every good painter paints what he...
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| That's the motivation of an artist-to seek attention of...
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| Things are beautiful if you love...
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| Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful...
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| Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness...
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| The most profound things are...
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| The principle of art is to pause, not...
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| The principles of true art is not to portray,...
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| When I make art, I think about its ability...
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| Joan Rivers | Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us...
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| Jodie Foster | I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than...
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| In art the best is good...
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| Personality is everything in art and...
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| The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has...
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| The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of...
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| Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting...
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| Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking...
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| John Gregory Dunne | Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job,...
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| John Le Carre | Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out...
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| John Ruskin | All books are divisible into two classes, the books...
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| John Ruskin | Art is not a study of positive reality, it...
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| John Ruskin | Fine art is that in which the hand, the...
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| John Updike | The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk...
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| John Updike | What art offers is space - a certain breathing...
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| Jonathan Swift | Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible...
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| Josh Billings | About the most originality that any writer can hope...
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| Josh Billings | Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but...
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| Jules Feiffer | Artists can color the sky red because they know...
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| Kahlil Gibran | Art is a step from what is obvious and...
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| Kary Mullis | Art is subject to arbitrary...
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| Kenneth Tynan | The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of...
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| Kim Cattrall | Art is an expression of who you are. Parts...
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| Lauryn Hill | You don't know how much artists go through to...
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| Leonardo da Vinci | Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience...
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| Leon Trotsky | There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in...
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| Lionel Trilling | Immature artists imitate. Mature artists...
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| Liz Phair | Women artists need to break barriers in order for...
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| Louis Kahn | Every time a student walks past a really urgent,...
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | All art is but imitation of...
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | The way is long if one follows precepts, but...
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| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper...
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| Marcel Proust | Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to...
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| Marcus Fabius Quintilian | The perfection of art is to conceal...
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| Marc Chagall | Great art picks up where nature...
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| Marc Chagall | I adore the theater and I am a painter....
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| Marc Chagall | The dignity of the artist lies in his duty...
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| Marc Chagall | When I am finishing a picture, I hold some...
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| Mark Twain | Words are only painted fire; a book is the...
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| Marquis De Vauvenargues | The art of pleasing is the art of...
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| Marshall McLuhan | Ads are the cave art of the twentieth...
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| Marshall McLuhan | Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th...
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| Mary Ellen Mark | I just think it's important to be direct and...
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| Michael Schenker | When you are live you never know what is...
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| Michael York | I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because...
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| Michelangelo | A man paints with his brains and not with...
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| Michelangelo | The true work of art is but a shadow...
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| Michelangelo | Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no...
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| Michel de Montaigne | My trade and art is to...
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| Mickey Spillane | If you're a singer you lose your voice. A...
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| Mikhail Baryshnikov | People of art should never get married and have...
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| M. C. Escher | Are you really sure that a floor can't also...
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| M. C. Escher | Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the...
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| M. C. Escher | We adore chaos because we love to produce...
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| Napoleon Bonaparte | A picture is worth a thousand...
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| Northrop Frye | In our day the conventional element in literature is...
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| Novalis | The artist belongs to his work, not the work...
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| Octavio Paz | Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn...
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| Odilon Redon | While I recognize the necessity for a basis of...
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Life is painting a picture, not doing a...
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| Oscar Levant | I'm a study of a man in chaos in...
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| Oscar Wilde | A work of art is the unique result of...
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| Oscar Wilde | All art is quite...
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| Oscar Wilde | All that I desire to point out is the...
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| Oscar Wilde | Art is the most intense mode of individualism that...
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| Oscar Wilde | It is only an auctioneer who can equally and...
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| Oscar Wilde | No great artist ever sees things as they really...
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| Pablo Picasso | Art washes away from the soul the dust of...
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| Pablo Picasso | Every child is an artist. The problem is how...
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| Pablo Picasso | Give me a museum and I'll fill...
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| Pablo Picasso | My mother said to me, "If you are a...
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| Pablo Picasso | Painting is just another way of keeping a...
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| Pablo Picasso | Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot,...
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| Pablo Picasso | The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that...
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| Pablo Picasso | The purpose of art is washing the dust of...
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| Pablo Picasso | We all know that art is not truth. Art...
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| Paul Cezanne | The awareness of our own strength makes us...
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| Paul Cezanne | We live in a rainbow of...
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| Paul Cezanne | When I judge art, I take my painting and...
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| Paul Gauguin | Art is either plagiarism or...
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| Paul Gauguin | In art, all who have done something other than...
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| Paul Gauguin | The history of modern art is also the history...
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| Paul Gauguin | There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity....
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| J. Paul Getty | My love of fine art increased - the more...
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| Paul Strand | The artist's world is limitless. It can be found...
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| Paul Valery | An artist never really finishes his work, he merely...
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| Peter Kropotkin | Have not prisons - which kill all will and...
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| Peter Shaffer | If London is a watercolor, New York is an...
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| Dana Plato | The beginning is the most important part of the...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every artist was first an...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every man is a quotation from all his...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Genius always finds itself a century too...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | In art, the hand can never execute anything higher...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Pictures must not be too...
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| Ray Manzarek | Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th...
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| Robert Delaunay | Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror...
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| Robert Mapplethorpe | When I work, and in my art, I hold...
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| Robert Mondavi | We want to raise the art of living...
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| Robert Schumann | To send light into the darkness of men's hearts...
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| Roger Daltrey | I don't think there's any way it could have...
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| Roy Lichtenstein | Art doesn't transform. It just plain...
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| Roy Lichtenstein | I like to pretend that my art has nothing...
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| Salvador Dali | Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is...
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| Salvador Dali | Painting is an infinitely minute part of my...
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| Salvador Dali | Progressive art can assist people to learn not only...
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| Samuel Butler | The history of art is the history of...
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| Samuel Johnson | Words are but the signs of...
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| Sarah Brightman | I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars...
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| Sarah Brightman | I have a love-hate relationship with...
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| Sarah Brightman | You do have to be fairly selfish when you...
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| Sarah McLachlan | Trying to force creativity is never...
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| Scott Adams | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is...
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| Sigourney Weaver | I think I have always tried to do the...
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| Simone Weil | Most works of art, like most wines, ought to...
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| Stan Getz | I don't think there is the same kind of...
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| Stephen Sondheim | Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order...
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| I come from a family of losers, and I've...
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| Sydney Pollack | You know, essentially when you do a play you're...
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| Tadao Ando | My hand is the extension of the thinking process...
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| Ted Shawn | Dance is the only art of which we ourselves...
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| Temple Grandin | When I was a little child I had problems...
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| Theodore Bikel | No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do...
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| Theodore Dreiser | Art is the stored honey of the human soul,...
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| Theodor Adorno | Art is magic delivered from the lie of being...
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| Theodor Adorno | The task of art today is to bring chaos...
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| Thomas Merton | Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves...
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| Thomas Paine | Every science has for its basis a system of...
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| Thom Yorke | It is difficult to make political art...
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| Tom Wolfe | Culture is the arts elevated to a set of...
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| T. S. Eliot | Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes...
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| Victor Hugo | To love beauty is to see...
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| Vincent Van Gogh | If you hear a voice within you say "you...
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| Walt Whitman | The art of art, the glory of expression and...
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| Willa Cather | What was any art but a mould in which...
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| William Faulkner | The aim of every artist is to arrest motion,...
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| William Hazlitt | Rules and models destroy genius and...
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| William Ralph Inge | Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and...
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| William Shakespeare | The object of art is to give life a...
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| William Wordsworth | Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate...
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| Wilson Mizner | Art is science made...
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| Winston Churchill | Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without...
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| W. H. Auden | What the mass media offers is not popular art,...
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| W. Somerset Maugham | Every production of an artist should be the expression...
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