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" Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. "
Al Capp
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" I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists. "
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" Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. "
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" Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. "
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" If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. "
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" Trying to force creativity is never good. "
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" Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. "
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" Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. "
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" What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. "
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" I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. "
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" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "
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" There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. "
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" The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. "
Theodor Adorno
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" Can art change the world? Maybe... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives? "
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" It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. "
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" I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art. "
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" I will preach with my brush. "
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" My painting does not come from the easel. "
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" The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. "
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" Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels. "
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" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "
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" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "
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" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "
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" When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? "
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" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "
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" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "
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" Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. "
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" I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way. "
Roy Lichtenstein
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