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“The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.”
“Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.”
“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.”
“It's clever but is it art?”
“Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.”
“Art is difficult transient is her reward.”
“The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.”
“You couldn't make up something that looked so right.”
“When he craved contact, he stopped in to visit the Cézannes and Monets at the Musée du Luxembourg, believing they had already done what he was striving for—distilling places and people and objects ...”
“But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.”
“The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built ...”
“Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
