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Vincent van Gogh
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
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George Bernard Shaw
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
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Leonardo da Vinci
“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
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Henri Matisse
“Creativity takes courage.”
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Aristotle
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
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Frank Lloyd Wright
“An idea is salvation by imagination”
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Banksy
“All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”
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Claude Monet
“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
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Danny Kaye
“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
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Stella Adler
“life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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J.D. Salinger
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
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Edgar Degas
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”