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Art QuotesShowing page 3 of 11 "The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above." "Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation." "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." "I didn't have any interest in traditional art." "We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives." "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." "Anything simple always interests me." "All autobiography is self-indulgent." "The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it." "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." "The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist." "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." "You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." "To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way." "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." "Art is not a thing; it is a way." "A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." "Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." "The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
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