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“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.” quote by David Bailey — Download Open image

“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.”

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Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

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I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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