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A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin
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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- Paul Gauguin
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
- Henry S. Haskins
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
- Hans Hofmann
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Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
- David Hockney
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Life is short, art is long...
- Hippocrates
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.
- Günter Grass
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
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To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist.
- Jacques-Louis David
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Edgar Degas
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
- A.K. Coomaraswamy
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free.
- Salvador Dali
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When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.
- Salvador Dali
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
- Salvador Dali
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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The road to success is always under construction.
- Lily Tomlin
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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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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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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
- Oscar Wilde
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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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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
- Wynetka Ann Reynolds
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Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
- Abhinavagupta
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn
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I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Carrie Fisher
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All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.
- Henry Mitchell
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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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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
- Carl Perkins
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.
- Aldous Huxley
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo
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The history of a people is found in its songs.
- George Jellinek
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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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A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
- Leopold Stokowski
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- Oscar Wilde
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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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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch
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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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To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.
- Plato
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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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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann
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Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.
- Roger Sessions
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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
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