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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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• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sight, Law

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• Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. I prefer to steer clear of anything aesthetic, so as not to set obstacles in my own way and not to have the problem of people saying: 'Ah, yes, that's how he sees the world, that's his interpretation.'

  Gerhard Richter

  People, Effort, Analogies

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Ideas, Effort

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Umpires, Roots, Other Cultures

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

  Horace

  Poet, Equal, Painter

  "Ars Poetica" (18 BC), 9, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 43-45, 1922.

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• The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Creativity, Long

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• Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Creative, Art Education, Form

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

  Arthur Erickson

  Enemy, Architecture, Bases

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

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• Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

  Leonard Baskin

  Pops, Modernism, Raised

  1965 In Publisher's Weekly, 5 Apr. See Wilde 909:22.

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• What is art? Nature concentrated.

  Honore de Balzac

  Nature, Literature

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• Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

  W. Ann Reynolds

  Women, Memorable, Knows

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• The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

  J. G. Holland

  Light, Use, Temples

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 43-45, Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects, Art and Life, 1922.

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• The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Principles, Bypass, Pausing

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Passing By: Selected Essays, 1962-1991”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With an apple I will astonish Paris.

  Paul Cezanne

  Paris, Apples

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• Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

  Gerhard Richter

  People, Important, World

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 06, 2015

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• What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

  Odilon Redon

  Pain, Looks, Pleasure

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• Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

  Jacques Barzun

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  1955 In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

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• The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Counterfeit Money, Counterparts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

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• While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

  Ian Hornak

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Sublime

  Cover Magazine, 1994.

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• There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

  Charles Dickens

  Pain, Two, Style

  Nicholas Nickleby ch. 10 (1839)

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• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art Is, Materials

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

  Victor Cousin

  Ethics, Morality, Infinite

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