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MysteRy · « **Reply #90 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:47:06 PM »

[highlight-text]Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Ned Rorem

MysteRy · « **Reply #91 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:47:35 PM »

[highlight-text]Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

MysteRy · « **Reply #92 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:48:02 PM »

[highlight-text]An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

Lee Simonson

MysteRy · « **Reply #93 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:48:29 PM »

[highlight-text]Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

MysteRy · « **Reply #94 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:48:57 PM »

[highlight-text]Art calls for complete mastery of techniques developed by reflection within the soul.

Bruce Lee

MysteRy · « **Reply #95 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:49:25 PM »

[highlight-text]In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

Kenneth Boulding

MysteRy · « **Reply #96 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:49:50 PM »

[highlight-text]What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

William Gaddis

MysteRy · « **Reply #97 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:50:16 PM »

[highlight-text]Less disappointing than life great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

Marcel Proust

MysteRy · « **Reply #98 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:50:43 PM »

[highlight-text]If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

George Santayana

MysteRy · « **Reply #99 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:51:12 PM »

[highlight-text]Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.

André Gide

MysteRy · « **Reply #100 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:51:54 PM »

[highlight-text]A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation; it should be a presentation.

Jacques Reverdy

MysteRy · « **Reply #101 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:52:22 PM »

[highlight-text]Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

Eduard Weston

MysteRy · « **Reply #102 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:52:51 PM »

[highlight-text]I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Jim Morrison

MysteRy · « **Reply #103 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:53:15 PM »

[highlight-text]One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Vincent van Gogh

MysteRy · « **Reply #104 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:53:40 PM »

[highlight-text]The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Martin Greenburg

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