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You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
Paul Strisik
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All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.
Lotte Jacobi
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The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny...
Mick Rock
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Why have our standards fallen so low? Why do we have all these ugly things which nobody needs? Industrial manufacture and new materials have led to truly unlimited possibilities of forms. There are no longer any natural constraints which depend on materials such as wood and stone. We simply manufacture everything that is technically possible and lack new structures on which to base our decisions.
Anselm Kiefer
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When intuition joins exact research, the progress of understanding will be accelerated astoundingly.
Paul Klee
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The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect... There is no doubt he [the photographer] best gets his effect by way of truth, but he uses it as he would a servant, not a master.
Henry Peach Robinson
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One of our core beliefs was that significant art could be made by anyone, anywhere and anytime. You didn't have to live and work in New York City to be an artist. It was in line with the philosophy of Outsider art and movements for artistic "localism."
Joe Lewis
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I think that if advanced beings were visiting Earth, we'd know it by their laughter.
Bill Amend
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As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings.
Auguste Rodin
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Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.
Lee Krasner
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The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe. In the end, Religion will kill us all.
Ed Krebs
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Fundamentally, the camera is nothing more than a light-tight box, having an arrangement for holding a light-sensitive substance (plate or film) and a device (lens or pinhole) for projecting on this sensitive substance an image of objects external to the camera.
Paul Lewis Anderson
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Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.
Martha Friedman
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It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.
Audrey Flack
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I was not able to work in the several excursions and ascensions made in the neighborhood, where it was very beautiful. One is so surprised by these grand aspects that it would be necessary to remain a long time before finding the interpretation capable of rendering them. I am going to finish the season at Auvers. There is nothing like one's natural every-day surroundings where one really takes pleasure. The pictures we do then feel the effect of their home-life, and the sweet sensations we experience in it.
Charles-François Daubigny
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It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.
Sigmar Polke
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Sculpture is the essence of things, the essence of nature, that which is perpetually human.
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
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One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.
Mikhail Lermontov
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The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.
Winslow Homer
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If you don't deal with your emotions, one day your emotions will deal with you,
J. Ivy
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There's an arc of being. There's a beginning, then the peak is reached and then there's the end. It's like the pole vaulter who begins his run, shoots up, then comes down. At the peak there is no movement. He's neither going up nor going down. It is that moment I wait for.
Roy DeCarava
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If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.
Keariene Muizz
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Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated.
Walter Sickert
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Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
David Low
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I strive to make my art bear the same relation to painting that polyphony bears to music. Illustrative music is a thing of the past: it has become abstract and purely aesthetic, dependent for its effect upon rhythm and form.
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
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