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"Painting is silent poetry." Plutarch
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." Leonardo da Vinci
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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." Andre Gide
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"Great art picks up where nature ends." Marc Chagall
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"Let me ask you something, what is not art?" Author Unknown
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure." Oscar Wilde
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"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening." Aaron Howard
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"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?" Pablo Picasso
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"I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture." Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908
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"Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination." Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
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"Art is an adventure that never seems to end." Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
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"Art is pictures straight from the heart." Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
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"Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life." Jean Paul Richter
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"Coloring outside the lines is a fine art." Kim Nance
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." George Santayana
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"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization." Lincoln Steffens
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"Art is not a thing; it is a way." Elbert Hubbard
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"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." Pablo Picasso
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"Grammar stops at love, and at art." Terri Guillemets
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"Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses." Robert Brault
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"The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world." André Malraux
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"An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it." Paul Valéry
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"An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture." Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." Albert Camus
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"The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is." Alfred Tonnelle
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"O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see." Robert Brault
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"Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths." Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing." To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres." Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
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"Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild." Dante Alighieri, Inferno
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