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" The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. "

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" My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance. "

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" Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and made a pledge to myself that the art of this newly discovered world in the Old World would be my life companion. "

" Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? "

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" For me, art doesn't stop at the gallery space. "

" The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. "

" The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. "

" Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. "

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" To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' "

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" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "

" The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. "

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" A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees. "

" Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. "

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" Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different. "

" The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. "

" One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. "

" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "

" There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. "

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" The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself. "

" Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness. "

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" I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling. "

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" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "

" The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. "

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