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"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at." »Oscar Wilde
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." »Pablo Picasso
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"You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate." »Eric Pio
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"The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." »Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
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"Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." »Andr Gide
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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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"A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times." »Eric Pio
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"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich
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"There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete." »Helen Keller
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"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." »Pablo Picasso
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"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." »Al Capp
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist." »Novalis
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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." »Albert Einstein
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"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger
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"The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." »Tom Naylor
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"On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light." »Freya Stark
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"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?" »C. S. Lewis
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"With abstract of all the chain reactions of our lives, love is what makes stories of lives much more cruel.." »The wise Pharoah Moe
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"An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." »Leland Stowe
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"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground." »Noah Webster
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"Every artist was first an amateur." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"An artist cannot do anything slovenly." »Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." »David Hume
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"A great artist is always before his time or behind it." »George Moore
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"An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one." »Charles Horton Cooley
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