"As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language."
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"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge."
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"From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies."
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"Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely."
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"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
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"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art."
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"The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form."
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"The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings."
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"All art is autobiographical. You can only create what you are."
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"We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character."
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"I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs. But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not."
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"My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help."
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"Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated."
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"That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way."
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"It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons."
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"The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul."
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"Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand"
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"I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager."
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"Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances."
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"I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California."
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