"The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things."
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"Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith."
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"The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind."
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"There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature."
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"A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it."
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"Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature."
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"The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being."
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"Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. If you draw a giraffe, you must draw him with a long neck. If in your bold creative way you hold yourself free to draw a giraffe with a short neck, you will really find that you are not free to draw a giraffe."
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"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."
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"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
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"We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech."
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"There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed."
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"Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy"
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"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
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"You don’t make art out of good intentions."
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"The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it."
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"The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order."
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"I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form."
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"One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt."
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"All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson."
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