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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Curves, Sight

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  Honore de Balzac

  Eye, Hands, Painting

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• With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.

  Wifredo Lam

  Life, Change, Freedom

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam (2002). “Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982”

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• It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

  Henri Matisse

  Cute, Paint, Bothered

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• All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

  Walter Pater

  Music, Aspire, Conditions

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "The School of Giorgione" (1873)

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• Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.

  Kerry James Marshall

  African American, Black, Done

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• An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

  Lee Simonson

  Cures, Neurotic, Has Beens

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• Competitions are for horses, not artists.

  Bela Bartok

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

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• I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.

  Gerhard Richter

  Furniture, Form, Stores

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

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• I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

  Augusta Savage

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Work

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• I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.

  Jose Limon

  Music, Dance, Power

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• The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Vision, World, Pleasure

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Only photography has been able to divide human life
  into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

  Eadweard Muybridge

  Life, Photography, Able

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• Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity.

  Alonzo King

  Life, Dance, Wisdom

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• Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

  Cindy Sherman

  Photography, Mistake, Ideas

  "It Began with Madame de Pompadour". Interview with Susan Sollin, art21.org. July 2013.

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• If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

  Karel Appel

  Age, Avant Garde, Barbarians

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• One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Creativity, Pigs

  "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

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• I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

  Pearl Primus

  Dance, Freedom, People

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• The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

  Lucian Freud

  Real, Views, Expression

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• Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

  Isaac Stern

  Music, Notes, Violinist

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• An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

  Charles Bukowski

  Simple, Men, Novelists

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.240, City Lights Books

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• My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Life, Philosophy, African American

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• As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

  Ninette de Valois

  School, Ballet, Special

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• Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

  Horace Pippin

  Mind, Painting, Pippin

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• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  Faith Ringgold

  Writing, Waiting, Needs

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