"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
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"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."
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"The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence."
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"I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art."
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"Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse."
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"Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness."
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"Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt."
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"It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once."
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"New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition."
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"It is either easy or impossible."
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"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
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"The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing."
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"Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately."
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"Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
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"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
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"Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention."
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"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."
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"We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts."
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"Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth."
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