“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.”
— Jackson Pollock
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Originality is the art of concealing your
“Originality is the art of concealing your source.”
— Franklin P. Jones
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Art is not a study of positive
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
— John Ruskin
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If you are going to break a
“If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.”
— Mason Cooley
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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes
“You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.”
— Knut Hamsun
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Actually I think Art lies in both
“Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.”
— Peter Hammill
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The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous
“The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.”
— George Santayana
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I take photographs with love, so I
“I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost – that is important.”
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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Religion and art spring from the same
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Animation is not the art of drawings
“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”
— Norman McLaren
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It is no great art to say
“It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.”
— Horace
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