"Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential."
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"Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art."
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"Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world."
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"There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it."
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"Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money."
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"It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order."
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"All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed."
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"The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay."
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"Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words."
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"First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms."
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"Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art"
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"Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing."
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"I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull."
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"No art goes unmediated by other art."
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"It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not."
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"What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture."
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"Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning."
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"Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts."
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"He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential."
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"The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths."
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