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" I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter. "

Chance The Rapper

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" The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. "

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" Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. "

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" All good art is an indiscretion. "

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" The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. "

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" Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa. "

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

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" Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. "

" The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art. "

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" Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. "

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