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" The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. "
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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" 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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" My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in. "
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" Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. "
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" Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. "
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" Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. "
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" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "
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" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "
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" A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. "
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