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• I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Painting, Subconscious

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• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Useless Things, Excuse, Admire

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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  Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

  Andy Warhol

  Hate, Creativity, Bad Ass

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

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• Around the mighty master came
  The marvels which his pencil wrought,
  Those miracles of power whose fame
  Is wide as human thought.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Miracle, Fame, Masters

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

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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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• Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Soul, Mind

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• Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

  Edith Wharton

  Freedom, Thinking, Definitions

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• For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Drinking, Intoxication, Certain

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• The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

  Robert Breault

  Wish, Use, Talent

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• Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Perfection, World

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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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• There is no progress in art.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Progress

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• I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

  Andy Warhol

  Long, Looks, Architecture

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• Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

  Rebecca West

  Women, Criticism, Argument

  Rebecca West (1957). “The Court and the Castle: Some Treatments of a Recurrent Theme /$Rebecca West”

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• A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

  Dylan Thomas

  Writing, Creativity, Reality

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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  Art is what you can get away with.

  Andy Warhol

  Freedom, Creativity, Get Away

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• Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Princess, Poetry, Fairy Tale

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• To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

  Steven Pressfield

  Love Is, Reason, Prostitution

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.151, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.

  John Ruskin

  Progress, Decline, Mark

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.120

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• Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Order, Matter

  1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

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• [A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

  David Hume

  Nature, Mortification, Equal

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.197

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Travel

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Genius, Architecture

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1854). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with a life”, p.5

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• All art is but imitation of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Garden, Imitation

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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