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" What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. "

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" There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art. "

" What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. "

" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

" Theatre is the art form of the present: it exists only in the present, and then it's gone. "

" Art should be created for life, not for the museum. "

" My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. "

" Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. "

" The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art. "

" The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. "

" I think the idea of art kills creativity. "

" 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. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" There's nothing more mundane than sitting across from a celebrity in a sterile gray conference room. But when the star sitting across from you is Taraji Penda Henson, you are being treated to a master class in the art of the hustle. "

" Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again. "

" Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. "

Madame de Stael

" It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. "

" I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many. "

" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. "

" I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman. "

" 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. "

" I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. "

" Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. "

" The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous. "

" The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. "

Jackson Pollock

" It's clever, but is it Art? "

Rudyard Kipling

" The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art. "

" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

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

" The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. "

Abraham Lincoln