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" It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. "
Oscar Wilde
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" My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. "
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" My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process. "
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" Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. "
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" There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. "
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" The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it. "
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" My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. "
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" When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. "
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" The perfection of art is to conceal art. "
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" I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. "
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" Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. "
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" Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. "
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" Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. "
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" A poet can survive everything but a misprint. "
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" To create a work of art is to create the world. "
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" Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. "
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" Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. "
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" I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. "
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" Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. "
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" I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. "
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" Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation. "
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" Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. "
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" The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. "
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