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“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.” quote by Sara Genn — Download Open image

“Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.”

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Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection.…

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Pay no attention to the less courageous.

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I can hide as much as I want in my colours

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Art is a perfectly complete cause.

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Play is your route to mastery.

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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

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Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

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Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.

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Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.

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Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

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Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.

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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

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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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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

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“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

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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.

Herbert Spencer

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In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

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I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

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