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Georgia O'Keeffe
"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage."
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Carl Perkins
"If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song."
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Norman Vincent Peale
"Imagination is the true magic carpet."
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Robert Motherwell
"In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself."
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Robert Motherwell
"Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it."
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Louise Nevelson
"Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind."
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Robert Hughes
"The camera, if it’s lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one."
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Winslow Homer
"Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way."
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Edward Hopper
"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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Elbert Hubbard
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
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Edward Hopper
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist."
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Susanne K. Langer
"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature."
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Jacob Lawrence
"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
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Roy Lichtenstein
"Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about."
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Roy Lichtenstein
"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms."
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John F. Kennedy
"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
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B.B. King
"We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so."
America, Blues, Music, Music Legends
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Lily Tomlin
"The road to success is always under construction."
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Henry David Thoreau
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
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Anne Tucker
"All art requires courage."
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John Updike
"What art offers is space -- a certain breathing room for the spirit."
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Mark Twain
"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus."
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Beverly Sills
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
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Twyla Tharp
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
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Susan Sontag
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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Frank Lloyd Wright
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
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Frank Zappa
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."
America, Controversial, Music, Music Legends, Rock & Roll, Popular Culture
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Frank Lloyd Wright
"You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it."
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Andy Warhol
"My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.'"
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James McNeill Whistler
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
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Jackson Pollock
"It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen."
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Jackson Pollock
"The painting has a life of its own."
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Robert Rauschenberg
"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
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Carlos Santana
"Music rearranges your molecular structure."
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Roger Sessions
"Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life."
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James Rosenquist
"I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist."
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Wynetka Ann Reynolds
"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art."
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Carl Sagan
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere."
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Martha Graham
"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time."
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Robert Frost
"If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts."
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."
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Lillian Hellman
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
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Henry S. Haskins
"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."
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Ulysess S. Grant
"I know only two tunes; one of them is "Yankee Doodle", and the other isn't."
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Martha Graham
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
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Martha Graham
"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion."
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Duke Ellington
"Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing."
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Duke Ellington
"Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one."
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Carrie Fisher
"I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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Thomas Edison
"Great ideas originate in the muscles."
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