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" Insight is the first condition of Art. "

George Henry Lewes

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" The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. "

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" Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. "

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" In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. "

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" Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. "

John W. Gardner

" There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. "

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" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "

" With an apple I will astonish Paris. "

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" Paint the essential character of things. "

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" Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. "

" The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. "

Hillary Clinton

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" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

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" I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. "

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" The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. "

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" Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go. "