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I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.

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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

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What is art but a way of seeing?

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People aren’t interested in seeing themselves as they really are.

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Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

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

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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.

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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

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Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

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