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" Painting and writing are solitary arts. "

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" Art is the objectification of feeling. "

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" Great art is an instant arrested in eternity. "

" Paint the essential character of things. "

Camille Pissarro

" I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. "

" An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. "

" Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. "

Paul Di Filippo

" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. "

" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

Winston Churchill

" Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. "

" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

" Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. "

Lionel Trilling

" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "

" All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. "

" Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. "

" The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are. "

" There is nothing new in art except talent. "

" The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. "

William Morris Hunt

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

" Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. "

" Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. "

" In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. "

" The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move. "

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

" The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. "

Thomas Sydenham

" I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. "