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“Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”

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“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”
Claude Monet quotes (French painter, initiator and leader of the Impressionist style, 1840-1926)
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“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist”
Eric Gill quotes
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“Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.”
Pablo Picasso quotes (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams quotes (American Cartoonist, b.1957)
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“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Jonathan Swift quotes (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”
Henri Matisse quotes (Artist regarded as the most important French Painter and Artist of the 20th century, 1869-1954)
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)
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