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"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
Paul Gauguin

"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
Paul Cezanne

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
Paul Gauguin

"My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."
Pablo Picasso

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
Pablo Picasso

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso

"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"
Peter Kropotkin

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."
Richard Avedon

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
Robert Schumann

"I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting."
Roy Lichtenstein

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."
Roy Lichtenstein

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."
Salvador Dali

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
Salvador Dali

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."
Salvador Dali

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
Salvador Dali

"I have a love-hate relationship with performing."
Sarah Brightman

"You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way."
Sarah Brightman

"I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy."
Sarah Brightman

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams

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