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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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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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A death was more than an ending; it was like pulling a thread from a richly patterned cloth.
Keith Roberts
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
John Berger
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Everywhere I look and most of the time I look, I see photographs.
Bert Hardy
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What trace of the creature subsists in the work. It is a way of staying alone, passing the time subjected to the object — silent, still. Walk with humility in the landscape. To be some natural thing — an ancient tree — no thinking — not to think is central to the activity.
Patrick Swift
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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.
Eric Gill
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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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The thing to be wished for, is not that the mountains should become easier, but that men should become wiser and stronger.
Edward Whymper
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Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
Nicolas Bentley
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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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Please wash your hands before leaving the twentieth century.
Jamie Reid
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It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter, with the nature of his materials.
Bernard Leach
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Much fruitless speculation has been spent over supposed hidden meanings in Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. The inclination to search for these was strictly natural, though the search was destined to fail.
Henry Holiday
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You know Paula, who I couldn't look at the beginning of the series... I love her to death now. I hate to admit it but I do.
Simon Cowell
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In lang, lang days o' simmer,
When the clear and cloudless sky
Refuses ae weep drap o' rain
To Nature parched and dry,
The genial night, wi' balmy breath,
Gars verdue, spring anew,
An' ilka blade o' grass
Keps its ain drap o' dew.
James Ballantine
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It's just a penis, it's just a bit of flesh, just this one organ, people think makes you superior to another sex.
Sarah Maple
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As in the fourteen lines of a sonnet, a few strokes of the pencil can hold immensity.
Laura Knight
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You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star.
James Seymour
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The space you leave behind is as important as the space you fill.
Susie Cooper
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He disrupted things and that's fine, but now things have been shaken up so much that it's been shaken up into little bits and the little bits have been shaken up into even smaller bits. We are saying let's put it all back together.
Charles Thomson
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Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation...
William Rothenstein
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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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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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One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.
Henry Fox Talbot
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