"There is always a subjective aspect in landscape art, something in the picture that tells us as much about who is behind the camera as about what is in front of it."
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"The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice."
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"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?"
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"One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it."
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"Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit."
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"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
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"For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew."
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"Diplomacy, n : 1. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. 2. The art of letting someone have your way. 3. The art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a rock. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
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"I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language."
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"It's God - I recognised him from Blake's picture."
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"Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art."
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"Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord."
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"There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land."
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"Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in."
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"Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence."
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"The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state."
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"Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong."
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"Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them."
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"The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art."
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"Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life."
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