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If You Were In A Burning House And There Was A Cat And A Rembrandt, What Would You Save? The Cat…You Would Save The Cat, Because The Cat Is Alive. The Art Is Dead. It’s Just Paint On A Canvas, Ink On A Page. To Live For Art Is To Deny Life. It’s Just To Destroy Life.

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Repetition Is The Death Of Art.

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Every Child Is An Artist. The Problem Is How To Remain An Artist Once He Grows Up.

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An Authentic Work Of Art Must Start An Argument Between The Artist And His Audience.

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Illusions Are Art, For The Feeling Person, And It Is By Art That You Live, If You Do.

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I Don’t Believe In Total Freedom For The Artist. Left On His Own, Free To Do Anything He Likes, The Artist Ends Up Doing Nothing At All. If There’s One Thing That’s Dangerous For An Artist, It’s Precisely This Question Of Total Freedom, Waiting For Inspiration And All The Rest Of It.

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Every Artist Was First An Amateur.

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Painting Is Just Another Way Of Keeping A Diary.

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I Have Often Thought That If Photography Were Difficult In The True Sense Of The Term — Meaning That The Creation Of A Simple Photograph Would Entail As Much Time And Effort As The Production Of A Good Watercolor Or Etching — There Would Be A Vast Improvement In Total Output. The Sheer Ease With Which We Can Produce A Superficial Image Often Leads To Creative Disaster.

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The Creation Of Art Is Not The Fulfillment Of A Need But The Creation Of A Need. The World Never Needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony Until He Created It. Now We Could Not Live Without It.

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Through All The World There Goes One Long Cry From The Heart Of The Artist: Give Me Leave To Do My Utmost.

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Art Is The Imposing Of A Pattern On Experience, And Our Aesthetic Enjoyment Is Recognition Of The Pattern.

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Each Painting Has Its Own Way Of Evolving…When The Painting Is Finished, The Subject Reaveals Itself.

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It Is All Very Well, When The Pen Flows, But Then There Are The Dark Days When Imagination Deserts One, And It Is An Effort To Put Anything Down On Paper. That Little You Have Achieved Stares At You At The End Of The Day, And You Know The Next Morning You Will Have To Scrape It Down And Start Again.

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The Idea Of A Mass Audience Was Really An Invention Of The Industrial Revolution.

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Art Is A Collaboration Between God And The Artist, And The Less The Artist Does The Better.

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I Can’t Criticize What I Don’t Understand. If You Want To Call This Art, You’ve Got The Benefit Of All My Doubts.

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Painting: The Art Of Protecting Flat Surfaces From The Weather And Exposing Them To The Critic.

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Art Forms Of The Past Were Really Considered Elitist. Bach Did Not Compose For The Masses, Neither Did Beethoven. It Was Always For Patrons, Aristocrats, And Royalty. Now We Have A Sort Of Democratic Version Of That, Which Is To Say That The Audience Is So Splintered In Its Interests.

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Without Art The Crudeness Of Reality Would Make The World Unbearable.

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