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A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.
- Michelangelo
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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
- Joan Miro
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All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
- Henry Mitchell
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The arts are the signature of a nation.
- Joan Mondale
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
- Claude Monet
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To be an artist is to believe in life.
- Henry S. Moore
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O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
- Jim Morrison
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In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself.
- Robert Motherwell
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
- Robert Motherwell
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I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.
- Edvard Munch
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Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
- Louise Nevelson
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Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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An artist chooses his subjects... that is the way he praises.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
- Claes Oldenburg
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To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
- Georgia O’Keeffe
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Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
- Anna Pavlova
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
- Norman Vincent Peale
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
- Carl Perkins
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso
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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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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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To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.
- Plato
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch
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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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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
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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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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
- Robert Rauschenberg
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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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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
- Wynetka Ann Reynolds
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A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
- Joshua Reynolds
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I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
- James Rosenquist
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Collecting art is like a drug. It is both intensely pleasurable and highly addictive.
- Norman Rosenthal
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
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Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.
- George Sand
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
- George Sand
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Music rearranges your molecular structure.
- Carlos Santana
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Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
- George Santayana
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
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Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.
- Roger Sessions
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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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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Beverly Sills
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