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" I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. "

Henry Ossawa Tanner

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" People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love. "

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" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "

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" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

" In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. "

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

" One eye sees, the other feels. "

" The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you. "

" Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. "

" I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody. "

" A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. "

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" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "

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" Art is too serious to be taken seriously. "

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" My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. "

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