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Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham
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I know only two tunes; one of them is "Yankee Doodle", and the other isn't.
- Ulysess S. Grant
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.
- Günter Grass
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
- Oscar Hammerstein
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- E.Y. Harbug
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The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
- Henry S. Haskins
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- Lillian Hellman
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
- Paul Hindemith
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Life is short, art is long...
- Hippocrates
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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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A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.
- Hans Hofman
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Hans Hofmann
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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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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
- Winslow Homer
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
- Edward Hopper
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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.
- Edward Hopper
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Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
- Aaron Howard
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard
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The camera, if it’s lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one.
- Robert Hughes
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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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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.
- Aldous Huxley
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco
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The history of a people is found in its songs.
- George Jellinek
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All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.
- Carl Gustav Jung
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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
- Frida Kahlo
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There is no must in art because art is free.
- Vasily Kandinsky
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
- Rudyard Kipling
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Entertainment and art are not isolated. Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
- Martin Kippinberger
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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
- Paul Klee
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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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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
- Karl Kraus
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Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
- Susanne K. Langer
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When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
- Jacob Lawrence
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring.
- Grace Lichtenstein
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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
- Rene-Francois-Ghislain Magritte
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
- Og Mandino
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
- Henri Matisse
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The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, almost total kinship with the model.
- Henri Matisse
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Creativity takes courage.
- Henri Matisse
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All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
- Henri Matisse
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Thomas Merton
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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
- Michelangelo
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Genius is eternal patience.
- Michelangelo
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