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" An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. "

Maurice Chevalier

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" When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. "

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" Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. "

" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

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" You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating. "

" The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. "

" A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. "

" The temple of art is built in words. "

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" If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Art is to be free. Design is to fix. "

" Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love. "

" Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered? "

" Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. "

" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. "

Albert Einstein

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

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" When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate solely on my art from that point on, which is the fun part! "

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" Art is the daughter of freedom. "

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" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "

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