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" An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. "

Willem de Kooning

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" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "

" Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often. "

" When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. "

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" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "

" The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle. "

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" It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception. "

Robert Motherwell

" The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art. "

" Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. "

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" If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. "

" The art is long, life is short. "

" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "

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" There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. "

William Shakespeare

" 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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" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

" I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career. "

" I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art. "

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" The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master. "

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