"The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward."
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"Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings."
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"Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off."
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"The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain."
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"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
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"The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting."
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"In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop."
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"media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists."
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"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
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"The art of love-giving and taking become one."
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"The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness."
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"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."
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"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
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"The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century."
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"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
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"The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body."
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"Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man."
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"I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope."
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"Life is short, the art long."
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"It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise."
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