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• "The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
  By: Robert Wilson
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• "It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture."
  By: Source Unknown
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• "If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!"
  By: Harry S. Truman
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• "Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."
  By: Jalal-Uddin Rumi
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• "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]"
  By: Auguste Rodin
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• "There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle."
  By: Adrienne Rich
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• "He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]"
  By: Pierre Auguste Renoir
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• "If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens."
  By: Grandma Moses
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• "Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
  By: William Morris
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• "We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizons; deep-cheated locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd."
  By: Tommaso Marinetti
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• "Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude."
  By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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• "Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
  By: Bella Lewitzky
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• "Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."
  By: Gunther Grass
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• "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass."
  By: William Faulkner
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• "Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it "joy"?"
  By: Andrea Dworkin
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• "The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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