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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  Henri Matisse

  Differences, Painting, Seeing

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• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

  John Ruskin

  Positive, Reality, Fools Day

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• Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

  Harry S. Truman

  Criticism, Constructive Criticism, Art Is

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• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Might, Form, Stills

  "Portrait of the artist: Vanessa Paradis, actor and musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Food, Cooking, Dining

  "Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne".

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• If the world were clear, art would not exist.

  Albert Camus

  Design, World, Sisyphus

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  Pablo Picasso

  Business, Museums, People

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Copies, Felt

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.26, Hudson Hills

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• Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

  Boris Pasternak

  Two, Revelations, Genuine

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• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Perception, Blind Love

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• A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

  Alexander Pope

  Price Tag, Theory, Has Beens

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Architecture, Painter, Builder

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Design, Feelings

  'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

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• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

  Edith Wharton

  Fear, Immature, Immaturity

  The Writing of Fiction (1925) ch. 1

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Caves, Architecture

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Creative, Way

  "Two Cheers for Democracy". Book by E. M. Forster, 1951.

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• The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

  Austin O'Malley

  Perfection, Source, Art Is

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• What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Fool, Harmony

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• In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Photography

  Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

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• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  Man Ray

  Our Society, Members, Painter

  Curtis L. Carter, Man Ray, Francis M. Naumann (1989). “Man Ray in America”

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• The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.

  Joseph Joubert

  Real, Secret, Ordinary

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• What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Real, Creativity, Men

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.69, Ravenio Books

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• I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press

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• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  Salvador Dali

  Portraits, Doe, Looks

  Quoted in Esar A Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951).

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• Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

  Arthur Erickson

  Light, Energy, Vitality

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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