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" I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. "

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" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

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" Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. "

" Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time. "

Maria Sibylla Merian

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

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" A picture is a poem without words. "

" If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. "

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" Land really is the best art. "

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" The art is long, life is short. "

" Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. "

" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "

" I came up, I suppose, a fairly traditional way. I went to art college. I always wanted to be a stills photographer, really, when I was younger, and I briefly worked as a stills photographer. "

" Paint the essential character of things. "

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" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "

" Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. "

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" There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form. "

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" True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. "

Albert Einstein

" Space is the breath of art. "

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" There is no must in art because art is free. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. "

Mario Vargas Llosa

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" I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. "

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