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When intuition joins exact research, the progress of understanding will be accelerated astoundingly.
Paul Klee
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I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.
Berthe Morisot
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Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.
Susan Hale
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Nature is richer than I represent it... Nature is so beautiful that when I am not tortured by poverty I am tortured by her splendor. How fortunate we are to be able to see and admire the glories of the sky and earth; if only I could be content just to admire them. But there is always the torment of struggling to reproduce them, the impossibility of creating anything within the narrow limits of painting.
Eugène Boudin
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Re Arkansas: Its airs—just breathe them, and they will make you snort like a horse.
Thomas B. Thorpe
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Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.
Egon Schiele
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Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
Lyonel Feininger
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Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Cézanne showed us forms living in the reality of light; Picasso gives us a material report of their real life in the mind. He establishes a free, mobile perspective, in such a way that the shrewd mathematician Maurice Princet has deduced an entire geometry.
Jean Metzinger
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I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I should have permitted myself to remain there. My honors are misunderstanding, persecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
Thomas Eakins
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The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.
Piet Mondrian
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I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.
Claude Monet
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To play your colors by eye is worse than playing the piano by ear.
John Sloan
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