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" Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. "

W. Somerset Maugham

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" The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. "

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" Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it. "

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" Art is pattern informed by sensibility. "

" Land really is the best art. "

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen. "

" Politics is the art of the possible. "

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" Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. "

" An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. "

Langston Hughes

" There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. "

" Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. "

" Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. "

" 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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" The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. "

" Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. "

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" You don't take a photograph, you make it. "

" Great artists suffer for the people. "

" A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art. "

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" The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing. "

" Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air conditioning and have good shows. "

" Art is the proper task of life. "

Friedrich Nietzsche