"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
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"Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."
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"And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head."
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"The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt."
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"We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another."
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"It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in."
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"Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes."
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"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
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"I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable"
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."
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"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
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"And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images."
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"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
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"Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge."
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"There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste"
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
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"A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier."
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"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."
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"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."
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"Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs"
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