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In a land [India] where the pitris or spirits of the dead are believed to be flitting round continually, seeking rest, and inhabiting the bodies of animals and birds, it is easy to imagine the bold and familiar crow haunting houses,
John Lockwood Kipling
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It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.
Bridget Riley
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This century has needed witnesses more than it has needed artists. The camera asserts what it has seen. The artists are just looking.
Mark Wallinger
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No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
David Hockney
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Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
Bert Hardy
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The artist's main business is to train his eye to see, then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye. I have a habit of looking, and really seeing.
John Nash
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
John Berger
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Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.
Eduardo Paolozzi
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A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.
Keith Roberts
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
- India-born artist sculpts landmark symbol for museum.
Anish Kapoor
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F I was an Optician, - I think that I would almost as willingly - Waltz blindfold and barefoot among 9 Red hot Ploughshares laid at unequal distances from each other, - as have All my Telescopes tried by that truly troublesome test a Fixed Star.
William Kitchiner
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I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.
Sebastian Horsley
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Our conviction that we are free to choose what we make of a photograph hides the complicity to which we are recruited in the very act of looking.
Victor Burgin
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I couldn't do them if I didn't know horses lived behind them.
Charles Keeping
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After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.
Cecil Beaton
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A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.
Kate Greenaway
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Somewhere on a hill facing the sea, there is a very beautiful ancient stone, and it's not going anywhere. It will be there, waiting for me.
Tracey Emin
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George: One man naked is a male study; more than one, well... that's quite serious - two men naked are more naked than one.
Gilbert & George
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Most artists go potty as they get older: dafter and madder as they get more celibate. So I am consciously going to do that.
Peter Blake
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The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.
Nick Bantock
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No one mirrors his age clearer than the artist, for here is the living moment made concrete, the particular made general.
John Minton
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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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Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other's ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.
Jo Baker
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Everyone has a certain difficulty in growing up, even my children, although I've been a good mother. I'm still not grown up in some ways compared with other people I know.
Angelica Garnett
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How then can the curious drawer watch, and as it were catch these lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass, and another countenance taketh place, except to behold and very well note and conceit to like.
Nicholas Hilliard
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