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There is no must in art because art is free.
- Vasily Kandinsky
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
- B.B. King
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Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Paul Klee
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Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
- Martin Kippinberger
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso
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Never settle for anything less than your best.
- Brian Tracy
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The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
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All art requires courage.
- Anne Tucker
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All creations demand greenery of spirit.
- Diana Vreeland
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What art offers is space -- a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike
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You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
- Simonides
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Beverly Sills
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
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Dancing is silent poetry.
- Simonides
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
- Twyla Tharp
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A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
- Susan Sontag
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All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.
- Stuart Wilde
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- Oscar Wilde
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Émile Zola
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa
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You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Dame Rebecca West
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Simone Weil
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My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.'
- Andy Warhol
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- James McNeill Whistler
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
- Oscar Wilde
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Strong and convincing art has never risen from theories.
- Mary Wigman
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It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.
- Jackson Pollock
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The painting has a life of its own.
- Jackson Pollock
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
- Rembrandt
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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
- Robert Rauschenberg
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras
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Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
- Pablo Picasso
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso
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To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.
- Plato
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Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
- Pablo Picasso
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For a long time I limited myself to one color... as a form of discipline.
- Pablo Picasso
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
- George Santayana
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
- Carlos Santana
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