“Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.”
— Akhenaton
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A work of art which did not
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
— Paul Cezanne
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I think of my peace paintings as
“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.”
— Robert Indiana
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art can never exist without naked beauty
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
— William Blake
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The last time money left the art
“The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.”
— Jerry Saltz
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History develops, art stands still.
“History develops, art stands still.”
— E. M. Forster
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A Bachelor of Arts is one who
“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”
— Helen Rowland
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My love of fine art increased –
“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.”
— Paul Getty
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I regard the theatre as the greatest
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
— Oscar Wilde
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I was taught that to create anything
“I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.”
— Malcolm Mclaren
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