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Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole…
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It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the…
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How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold…
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Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward:…
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The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives,…
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[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be,…
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We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian…
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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
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If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble…
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
— A. S. Byatt
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
— Eugene Delacroix
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than…
— Julia Cameron
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
— Alexander Pope
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
— Eugenio Montale
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
— Peter Max
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…
— Paul Cezanne
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