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" Art is the proper task of life. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art
Task
Proper
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" Success has always been a great liar. "
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" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "
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" Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. "
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You
Own
" No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. "
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Eye
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" I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work. "
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" The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. "
Ulysses S. Grant
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Moving On
Moving
" The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. "
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Try
Struggle
Lonely
" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "
Jay Kay
Government
Tax
Me
" Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. "
Jackson Pollock
Art
He
Artist
" It's clever, but is it Art? "
Rudyard Kipling
Clever
Art
" Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Listen
Rather
See
" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "
Ellen Key
Imagination
Need
Art
" My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. "
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Art
Thinking
Teach
" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "
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Art
Education
Few
" The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. "
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Good
Respect
Art
" Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art. "
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Task
Find
Human
" Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. "
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Concrete
Art
Representation
" All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. "
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Human
You
Wall
" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "
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Artist
Dream
Dreamer
" He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. "
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Climb
Walk
Learning
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Art
Pleasure
Essence
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Life
Story
Human
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Tone
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Apple
" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "
Oscar Wilde
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Imagination
" Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. "
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Soul
Human
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