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"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."
Cyril Connolly

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."
Charles Baudelaire

"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."
Cecil Beaton

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Charles Horton Cooley

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."
Cindy Sherman

"We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
Diane Arbus

"Anything simple always interests me."
David Hockney

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
Daphne du Maurier

"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."
Donal Henahan

"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure."
Dale Carnegie

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
David Hockney

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola

"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."
Edward Steichen

"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."
Edward M. Forster

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
Edgar Degas

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Edmond de Goncourt

"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."
Edward Steichen

"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."
Elbert Hubbard

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