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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Reality, Imagination

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• Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

  Marie Laurencin

  Girl, Beer, Glasses

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• Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

  Marcella Hazan

  Food, Cooking

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• As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Use, Done

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• The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Important, Language, Importance

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Art should be waged like war.

  Mark Boyle

  War, Should

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• The true artist can only labor con amore.

  Victor Hugo

  Artist, Labor, True Artists

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fashion

  New York World Telegram & Sun, August 21, 1960.

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny Friend, Drawing, Lines

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Environment, Harmony

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• Art is significant deformity.

  Roger Fry

  Significant, Deformity, Art Is

  Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Dream, Escaping, Common Sense

  "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

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• Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Expression, Poetry

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Flower, Judging, Tree

  "Is Cooking Ever an Art?" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Shadow Work, Perfection

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Flower, Color

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• ...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

  Henri Matisse

  Giving, Greater

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• I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

  Damien Hirst

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

  Joan Miro

  Character, Mean, Giving

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Creativity, Thinking, Imagination

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• Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

  David Hockney

  Moving, Design, Creative

  1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

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• There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  George Jean Nathan

  Music, Mad, Literature

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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