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" Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. "

Gustave Flaubert

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" Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. "

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" Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. "

" If gaming were seen as an art, the important question would be not whether games are good for us but whether they are good, full stop. "

" Insight is the first condition of Art. "

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" The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. "

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

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" Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. "

" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. "

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" Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. "

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