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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

- Thomas Merton

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Print The camera, if it’s lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one.
- Robert Hughes 		Visual Arts
Print A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco 		Visual Arts
Print I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
- Frida Kahlo 		Visual Arts
Print All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
- Carl Gustav Jung 		Visual Arts
Print Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
- Winslow Homer 		Visual Arts
Print Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 		Visual Arts
Print A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Hans Hofmann 		Visual Arts
Print If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
- Edward Hopper 		Visual Arts
Print Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard 		Visual Arts
Print Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
- Aaron Howard 		Visual Arts
Print Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.
- Edward Hopper 		Visual Arts
Print Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
- Susanne K. Langer 		Visual Arts
Print Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- Karl Kraus 		Visual Arts
Print Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
- Paul Klee 		Visual Arts
Print When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
- Jacob Lawrence 		Visual Arts
Print Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
- Roy Lichtenstein 		Visual Arts
Print Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
- Roy Lichtenstein 		Visual Arts
Print We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy 		Visual Arts
Print There is no must in art because art is free.
- Vasily Kandinsky 		Visual Arts
Print Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Paul Klee 		Visual Arts
Print Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
- Martin Kippinberger 		Visual Arts
Print Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print Never settle for anything less than your best.
- Brian Tracy 		Visual Arts
Print All art requires courage.
- Anne Tucker 		Visual Arts
Print All creations demand greenery of spirit.
- Diana Vreeland 		Visual Arts
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