"You do in your art what you cannot do in your life."
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"I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings."
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"As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art."
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"I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind."
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"The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art."
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"Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed."
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"The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose"
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"Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art."
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"A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind."
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"The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out the detail according to his own particular imagination... but a painter, when he represents Eve on canvas, is obliged to give a determined form, and his own idea of beauty distinctly expressed."
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"But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege, and desires, from mere impatience of labour, to take the citadel by storm. They wish to find some shorter path to excellence, and hope to obtain the reward of eminence by other means, than those which the indispensable rules of art have prescribed."
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"I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger."
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"Tragedy is the highest form of art."
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"There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better."
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"I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work."
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"Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process."
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"The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality"."
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"We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective."
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"Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists."
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"The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day-a way of relating."
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