"You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along."
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"Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less."
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"Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art."
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"It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it."
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"Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"If people knew how hard I worked at my art, they would not consider me a genius."
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"I live and love in God's peculiar light."
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"A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking."
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"Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this."
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"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."
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"With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split."
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"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."
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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
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"I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school."
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"Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours."
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"I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case."
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"In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be."
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"All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art."
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"Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art."
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