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• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Passion, Alive

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• Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Queens, Generations

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• The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

  James Joyce

  Art, Spring, Doe

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.386, e-artnow

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• Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Motivational, Success, Time

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• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Useless Things, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

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• I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Needs, Critics

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  Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Hate, Creativity

  Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”

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• Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Time, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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  We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "The Middle Years" (1893)

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• The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• A work of art is an exaggeration.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Exaggeration, Works Of Art

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• Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Nature, Feelings

  Mind: An Essay in Human Feeling vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1967)

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• Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

  Jean Paul

  Art, Wine, Bread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 43-45), 1922.

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• The art is long, life is short

  Hippocrates

  Art, Short Life, Life Is Short

  Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

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• For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

  Georges Rouault

  Art, Night, Laughing

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• Art is significant deformity.

  Roger Fry

  Art, Significant, Deformity

  Quoted in VirginiaWoolf, Roger Fry (1940)

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• What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Art, Insanity, Salad

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• What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Thinking, Fool

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• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  Simone Weil

  Art, Two, Effort

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.42, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

  Theodor Adorno

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.222, Verso

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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