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Art

«I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.»
«I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.»
Author: Orson Welles | About: Actors and acting, Art, Hate | Keywords: passionately
«I shut my eyes in order to see.»
Author: Paul Gauguin | About: Ability, Art, Artist, Imagination, Inspiration | Keywords: shut
«I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.»
«I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.»
Author: Britney Spears (Singer) | About: Art | Keywords: relate
«I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.»
Author: Katharine Hepburn | About: Art, Luck, Opinions | Keywords: involved, lucky, secretly
«I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.»
«I strove with none; for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | About: Art, Nature | Keywords: sinks, strove, warmed
«I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.»
«I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Art, People | Keywords: suggest