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| Ansel Adams |
You don't take a photograph...
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| Ansel Adams |
There is nothing worse than...
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| Ansel Adams |
There are no rules for...
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| Ansel Adams |
The negative is comparable to...
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| Ansel Adams |
Not everybody trusts paintings...
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| Scott Adams |
Creativity is allowing yourself...
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| Theodor Adorno |
Art is magic delivered from...
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| Theodor Adorno |
The task of art today...
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| Theodor Adorno |
Every work of art is...
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| Tadao Ando |
My hand is the extension...
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| Jean Anouilh |
Things are beautiful if you...
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| Aristotle |
The aim of art is...
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| Aristotle |
Well begun is half done...
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| W. H. Auden |
What the mass media offers...
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| Francis Bacon |
Fashion is only the attempt...
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| Francis Bacon |
Some books are to be...
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| Honore de Balzac |
If we could but paint...
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| Ellen Barkin |
Acting is a matter of...
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| Mikhail Baryshnikov |
People of art should never...
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| Charles Baudelaire |
A frenzied passion for art...
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| Cecil Beaton |
Be daring, be different, be...
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| Henry Ward Beecher |
Every artist dips his brush...
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| Henry Ward Beecher |
Books are not men and...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Photograph: a picture painted...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Painting, n.: The art of...
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| Theodore Bikel |
No heirloom of humankind...
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| Josh Billings |
Words are often seen hunting...
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| Josh Billings |
About the most originality...
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| William Blake |
You never know what is...
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
A picture is worth a...
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| Napoleon Bonaparte |
Imagination rules the world.
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
To me, photography is the...
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
The creative act lasts but...
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| Sarah Brightman |
I have a love-hate...
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| Sarah Brightman |
You do have to be...
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| Samuel Butler |
The history of art is...
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| Alexander Calder |
I paint with shapes.
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| Alexander Calder |
My fan mail is enormous...
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| Alexander Calder |
To an engineer, good enough...
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| Italo Calvino |
A classic is a book...
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| Albert Camus |
A guilty conscience needs to...
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| Albert Camus |
Abstract Art: A product of...
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| Albert Camus |
All great deeds and all...
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| Albert Camus |
Without freedom, no art; art...
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| Al Capp |
Abstract art is a product...
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| Dale Carnegie |
The essence of all art...
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| John le Carre |
Writing is like walking in...
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| Willa Cather |
What was any art but...
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| Paul Cezanne |
We live in a rainbow...
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| Paul Cezanne |
When I judge art, I...
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| Paul Cezanne |
The awareness of our own...
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| Marc Chagall |
When I am finishing a...
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| Marc Chagall |
Great art picks up where...
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| Marc Chagall |
I adore the theater and...
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| Marc Chagall |
The dignity of the artist...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Art consists of limitation...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Art, like morality, consists...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Lying in bed would be...
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| Winston Churchill |
Without tradition, art is a...
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| John Ciardi |
Modern art is what happens...
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| Jean Cocteau |
Art produces ugly things which...
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| Cyril Connolly |
The artist one day falls...
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| Charles Horton Cooley |
An artist cannot fail; it...
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| Charles Horton Cooley |
One should never criticize his...
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| Francis Ford Coppola |
Art depends on luck and...
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| Francis Ford Coppola |
I don't think there's any...
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| Dick Dale |
Every song is like a...
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| Salvador Dali |
Drawing is the honesty of...
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| Salvador Dali |
Painting is an infinitely...
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| Salvador Dali |
Progressive art can assist...
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| Edgar Degas |
Painting is easy when you...
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| Eugene Delacroix |
The artist who aims at...
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| Robert Delaunay |
Art in Nature is rhythmic...
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| Howard Dietz |
Composers shouldn't think too...
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| Theodore Dreiser |
Art is the stored honey...
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| John Gregory Dunne |
Writing is manual labor of...
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| Albert Einstein |
True art is characterized by...
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Motivation is the art of...
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| T. S. Eliot |
Twentieth-century art may...
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| Henry Ellis |
Every artist writes his own...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Pictures must not be too...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every artist was first an...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
In art, the hand can...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every man is a quotation...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Love of beauty is taste...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Genius always finds itself a...
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| Epicurus |
The art of living well...
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| Arthur Erickson |
Rationalism is the enemy of...
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| Arthur Erickson |
Vitality is radiated from...
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| M. C. Escher |
Are you really sure that...
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| M. C. Escher |
Only those who attempt the...
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| M. C. Escher |
We adore chaos because we...
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| William Faulkner |
The aim of every artist...
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| Jules Feiffer |
Artists can color the sky...
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| Federico Fellini |
All art is autobiographical...
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| Gustave Flaubert |
Of all lies, art is...
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| Gustave Flaubert |
Artists who seek perfection in...
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| E. M. Forster |
To make us feel small...
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| E. M. Forster |
Works of art, in my...
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| Jodie Foster |
I think an artist's...
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| Anatole France |
In art as in love...
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| Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
What garlic is to salad...
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| Paul Gauguin |
In art, all who have...
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| Paul Gauguin |
Art is either plagiarism or...
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| Paul Gauguin |
There is always a heavy...
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| Paul Gauguin |
The history of modern art...
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| Paul Getty |
My love of fine art...
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| Kahlil Gibran |
Art is a step from...
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| Andre Gide |
Art is a collaboration between...
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| Andre Gide |
Art begins with resistance...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The mediator of the...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The artist alone sees spirits...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Personality is everything in...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Thinking is more interesting...
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
In art the best is...
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
If you hear a voice...
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| Edmond de Goncourt |
A painting in a museum...
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| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
We breathe, we think, we...
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| Helen Hayes |
I cry out for order...
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| William Hazlitt |
Rules and models destroy...
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| Lauryn Hill |
You don't know how much...
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| David Hockney |
Anything simple always interests...
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| David Hockney |
The moment you cheat for...
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| Jim Hodges |
When I make art, I...
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| Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Life is painting a picture...
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| Jenny Holzer |
The most profound things are...
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| Horace |
A picture is a poem...
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| Elbert Hubbard |
Art is not a thing...
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| Elbert Hubbard |
The sculptor produces the...
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| Victor Hugo |
To love beauty is to...
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| William Ralph Inge |
Literature flourishes best when...
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| Samuel Johnson |
Words are but the signs...
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| Erica Jong |
Everyone has talent. What is...
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| Louis Kahn |
Every time a student walks...
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| Anish Kapoor |
Artists don't make objects...
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| Elia Kazan |
The writer, when he is...
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| Elia Kazan |
I was the hero of...
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| Ellen Key |
The more horrifying this world...
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| Henry A. Kissinger |
Art is man's expression of...
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| Jerzy Kosinski |
The principles of true art...
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| Jerzy Kosinski |
The principle of art is...
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| Peter Kropotkin |
Have not prisons - which kill...
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| Hedy Lamarr |
A good painting to me...
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| Fran Lebowitz |
Andy Warhol made fame more...
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| Fran Lebowitz |
Very few people possess true...
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| Elmer G. Letterman |
You can't start at the...
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| Oscar Levant |
I'm a study of a...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
I like to pretend that...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
Art doesn't transform. It just...
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| Abraham Lincoln |
The highest art is always...
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| Franz Liszt |
Mournful and yet grand is...
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| Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
The arts are an even...
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| Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
Somewhere in the world there...
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| Amy Lowell |
Art is the desire of...
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| Melvin Maddocks |
Giving jazz the Congressional...
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| Gustav Mahler |
The real art of conducting...
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| Ray Manzarek |
Movies were very important...
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| Robert Mapplethorpe |
When I work, and in...
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| Mary Ellen Mark |
I just think it's important...
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| Henri Matisse |
Time extracts various values...
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| Henri Matisse |
I don't paint things. I...
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| Henri Matisse |
You study, you learn, but...
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| Henri Matisse |
A picture must possess a...
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| Henri Matisse |
I have always tried to...
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| Henri Matisse |
Drawing is like making an...
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| Henri Matisse |
It is only after years...
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| Henri Matisse |
I have been no more...
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| Henri Matisse |
What I dream of is...
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| W. Somerset Maugham |
Every production of an artist...
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| Daphne du Maurier |
All autobiography is self...
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| Sarah McLachlan |
Trying to force creativity is...
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| Marshall McLuhan |
Ads are the cave art...
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| Marshall McLuhan |
Advertising is the greatest...
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| Thomas Merton |
Art enables us to find...
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| Michelangelo |
A man paints with his...
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| Michelangelo |
The true work of art...
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| Michelangelo |
Trifles make perfection, and...
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| Bette Midler |
I always try to balance...
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| Henry Miller |
The waking mind is the...
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| Henry Miller |
An artist is always alone...
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| Wilson Mizner |
Art is science made clear...
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| Michel de Montaigne |
My trade and art is...
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| George Edward Moore |
A great artist is always...
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| Henry Moore |
It is a mistake for...
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| Henry Moore |
A sculptor is a person...
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| Kary Mullis |
Art is subject to arbitrary...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
The essence of all beautiful...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
Art is the proper task...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
We have art in order...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
An artist has no home...
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| Anais Nin |
If you do not breathe...
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| Novalis |
The artist belongs to his...
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| Carroll O'Connor |
Even a true artist does...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
I found I could say...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
It was in the 1920s...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
Sun-bleached bones were most...
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| Thomas Paine |
Every science has for its...
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| Blaise Pascal |
Eloquence is a painting of...
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| Octavio Paz |
Art is an invention of...
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| Bernadette Peters |
You've gotta be original...
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| Liz Phair |
Women artists need to break...
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| Pablo Picasso |
The artist is a receptacle...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Some painters transform the...
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| Pablo Picasso |
The purpose of art is...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Give me a museum and...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Painting is just another way...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Every child is an artist...
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| Pablo Picasso |
We all know that art...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Art washes away from the...
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| Pablo Picasso |
My mother said to me...
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| Plato |
The beginning is the most...
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| Jackson Pollock |
Every good painter paints what...
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| Alexander Pope |
A work of art that...
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| Alexander Pope |
So vast is art, so...
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| Marcus Fabius Quintilian |
The perfection of art is...
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| Odilon Redon |
While I recognize the...
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| Joan Rivers |
Our natures are a lot...
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| Auguste Rodin |
I choose a block of...
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| Auguste Rodin |
Inside you there's an artist...
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| Carl Rogers |
The very essence of the...
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| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
I don't want to be...
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| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
A chair is a very...
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| Jean Rostand |
Beauty in art is often...
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| John Ruskin |
Fine art is that in...
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| John Ruskin |
Art is not a study...
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| John Ruskin |
All books are divisible into...
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| George Santayana |
An artist is a dreamer...
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| Friedrich Schiller |
Art is the right hand...
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| Friedrich Schiller |
Art is the daughter of...
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| Arthur Schopenhauer |
Treat a work of art...
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| Clara Schumann |
My imagination can picture no...
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| Robert Schumann |
To send light into the...
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
All art is but imitation...
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
The way is long if...
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| William Shakespeare |
The object of art is...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Without art, the crudeness of...
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| Ted Shawn |
Dance is the only art...
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| Cindy Sherman |
I didn't have any interest...
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| Frank Sinatra |
May you live to be...
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Every creator painfully experiences...
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| Stephen Sondheim |
Art, in itself, is an...
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| Mickey Spillane |
If you're a singer you...
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| Edward Steichen |
Photography records the gamut...
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| Edward Steichen |
Photography is a major force...
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| Edward Steichen |
When that shutter clicks...
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| Edward Steichen |
Every other artist begins with...
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| Gertrude Stein |
A writer should write with...
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| Paul Strand |
The artist's world is...
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| Igor Stravinsky |
Lesser artists borrow, great...
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| Barbra Streisand |
I've been called many names...
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| Jonathan Swift |
Vision is the art of...
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| James Taylor |
That's the motivation of an...
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| Twyla Tharp |
Art is the only way...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
This world is but a...
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| Henry David Thoreau |
To affect the quality of...
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| Lionel Trilling |
Immature artists imitate. Mature...
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| Leon Trotsky |
There are no absolute rules...
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| Harry S. Truman |
Art is parasitic on life...
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| Mark Twain |
Words are only painted fire...
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| John Updike |
What art offers is space...
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| John Updike |
The refusal to rest content...
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| Paul Valery |
An artist never really...
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| Edgard Varese |
An artist is never ahead...
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| Leonardo da Vinci |
Although nature commences with...
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| Andy Warhol |
An artist is someone who...
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| Andy Warhol |
I'm afraid that if you...
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| Andy Warhol |
Being born is like being...
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| Andy Warhol |
Dying is the most embarrassing...
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| Andy Warhol |
I like boring things.
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| Andy Warhol |
Everyone will be famous for...
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| Andy Warhol |
I am a deeply superficial...
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| Simone Weil |
Most works of art, like...
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| Walt Whitman |
The art of art, the...
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| Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
For an actress to be...
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| Oscar Wilde |
All that I desire to...
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| Oscar Wilde |
No great artist ever sees...
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| Oscar Wilde |
All art is quite useless...
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| Oscar Wilde |
It is only an auctioneer...
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| Oscar Wilde |
A work of art is...
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| Oscar Wilde |
Art is the most intense...
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| Oscar Wilde |
Life imitates art far more...
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| Tom Wolfe |
Culture is the arts elevated...
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| William Wordsworth |
Pictures deface walls more...
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| Frank Lloyd Wright |
The physician can bury his...
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| Frank Lloyd Wright |
Art for art's sake is...
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| Thom Yorke |
It is difficult to make...
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| Emile Zola |
The artist is nothing without...
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