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" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

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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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" My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now! "

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" The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. "

" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

" I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette. "

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" When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art. "

" A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. "

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" Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal. "

" Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. "

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" Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. "

" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "

Jackson Pollock

" The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. "

" Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "

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" Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. "

William Wordsworth

" Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art. "

" Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. "

Robert Delaunay

" The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. "

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" Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. "

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" I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. "

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" I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. "

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