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• "I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
  By: Orson Welles
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• "Art has never been made while thinking of art."
  By: Niko Stumpo
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• "Beauty was darkness till she came. Then paint her eyes, whose active light Shall make the former shadows bright, And with their every beam supply New day, to draw her picture by."
  By: James Shirley
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• "Creativity is ... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."
  By: Michele Shea
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• "If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat ... you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life."
  By: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
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• "I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts."
  By: Charles Rosin
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• "All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."
  By: M. C. Richards
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• "Contemporary art, art which is in essence contradictory : as strict as mathematics or violently lyric, sincere to the point of shamelessness or insolent in deception, an explosion of colour or joy or a negation of everything, including oneself, it is always on the lookout for tomorrow. Isn't this the image of our world ?"
  By: Georges Pompidou
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• "If contemporary art touches me it is due to this tense and fascinating search for the new and unknown."
  By: Georges Pompidou
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• "My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
  By: Pablo Picasso
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• "Un croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours.Fr., "A sketch is better than a long speech.""
  By: Napoleon
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• "The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."
  By: Piet Mondrian
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• "Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own."
  By: Piero Milani
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• "It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it."
  By: Jeff Melvoin
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• "No sketches first, no studies, that's long past: I do what many dream of all their lives, Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do, And fail in doing. I could count twenty such--On twice your fingers, and not leave this town, Who strive - you don't know how the others strive To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat, - Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says, (I know his name, no matter) - so much less!"
  By: Unknown
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