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I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
Adolph Gottlieb
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The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.
Charles Marion Russell
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Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
Matthew Knisely
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When you feel colors, you will understand the why of their forms.
Oscar Florianus Bluemner
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Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good
Ludwig Bemelmans
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It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - "Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece.
Shel Silverstein
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When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.
Jack Goldstein
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The freeze of a photographic gesture, the fix of an action, how an arm twists, how a smile gets momentarily stabilized or exaggerated - to try to get some of this is important... The photofix inflects the almost literal shaping of a figure, changes of movement or potential movement, and a sense of occurrence or event.
Leon Golub
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Photography is nature seen from the eyes outward, painting from the eyes inward. Photography records inalterably the single image, while painting records a plurality of images willfully directed by the artist.
Charles Sheeler
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You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.
Imogen Cunningham
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Life without labor is crime, and labor without art is brutality.
John Wesley Hardrick
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A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Always watch the hands. The hands will tell you everything you need to know.
Lynda Barry
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Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.
Guy Davenport
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I have found that try as I will, I cannot escape the nemesis of my color. I believe, deep in my heart, that the dark tinge of my skin is the thing that has been my making. For you see, I have had to work 100 percent harder to realize my ambition.
Archibald Motley
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Forget all the rules you ever learned
about graphic design.
Bob Gill (artist)
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Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.
Horace Pippin
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I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
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Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.'
'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?'
'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything.
Brandon Stanton
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Besides combining her greatest skill and artistry in the production of snowflakes, Nature generously fashions the most beautiful specimens on a very thin plane so that they are specially adapted for photomicrographical study.
Wilson A. Bentley
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If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.
Childe Hassam
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
Jim Sanborn
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I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal with structures to the way I deal with photography.
Gordon Matta-Clark
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Art says "stop looking at my face or the clothes I wear and look at another important part of me." It's the part of me I can't talk about so I dance it or paint it or compose music about it.
Ernest Crichlow
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