"It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all."
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"Fashion is more art than art is"
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"Pop art is about liking things."
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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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"Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."
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"Art takes nature as its model."
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"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself."
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"Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists."
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"In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips."
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"When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn."
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"We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us."
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"[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists."
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"To create a little flower is the labour of ages."
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"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."
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"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
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"true apothecary thy drugs art quick"
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"Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
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"Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy."
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"I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and think this is the music. Now that music is art. Ellington is art. At that time it was just what you heard on the radio. Cole Porter was just a guy who wrote pretty songs and Billie Holliday would sing them."
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"Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life-your life-a masterpiece."
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