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- You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that…
- There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
- Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education…
- Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful.…
- In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
- The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up…
- In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his…
- After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really…
- All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.
- An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
- All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being…
- The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
- An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his…
- Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.
- All education must be self-education.
- Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right…
- Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.
- Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the…
- Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world…
- If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman