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• The history of art is the history of revivals.

  Samuel Butler

  Architecture, Revival, Art Is

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

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• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

  Andre Gide

  Overcoming, Resistance, Masterpiece

  "Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Two Sides, Ease, Four

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Philosophy, Sake, Feds

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• You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Nature, Theory, Painter

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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

  Writing, Reading Poetry, Immature

  The Sacred Wood "Philip Massinger" (1920)

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• Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Hurt, Memorable, Goes On

  Heat of the Day (1949) ch. 16

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Exercise, Cutting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Hurt, Home, Stay Positive

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.109, Library of America

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• Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Real, Two, Soul

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• In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Infinite, Should

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• Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

  George A. Moore

  Philosophy, History, Ends

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• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

  Theodor Adorno

  Order, Design, Tasks

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

  Gustave Courbet

  Beautiful, Reality, Form

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• Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

  Michelangelo Pistoletto

  Museums, People, Levels

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• I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.

  Albert Oehlen

  Mean, Oil, Insecurity

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2009.

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• Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Drinking, Creativity

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• I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Two, Answers, Ends

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• Art does not imitate, but interpret.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Doe

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

  Henri Matisse

  Funny, Expression, Drawing

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted in the review of "The Drawings of Henri Matisse" exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Business

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• Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

  Gerhard Richter

  Real, Taken, Names

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Don't think about making art.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Inspire Creativity, Famous Artist

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.

  Russell Lynes

  Wall, Home, Color

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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