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"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder." »John Ruskin
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign." »Andrew Schneider
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." »Blaise Pascal
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"A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen." »Paul Valery
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"Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music." »Nikki Harris
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"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous." »Auguste Renoir
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"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso
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"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things." »Leonardo Da Vinci
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"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." »Henri Matisse
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"It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece." »Burton
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"A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day." »Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary." »David Bailey
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"The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame." »Gertrude Stein
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"Never say sorry - it's a sign of weakness" »John Wayne
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"If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it." »Spanish Proverb
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"The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind." »Albert Camus
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"Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it." »Danish proverb
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"If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive." »Elbert Hubbard
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." »Woody Allen
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"What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do." »Sanaya Roman
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"A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory." »Charles Lauller
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"Do not speak quickly it is a sign of insanity." »Bias
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"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work." »Anatole France
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"A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity." »Johann Kaspar Lavater
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"Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom." »Greek Proverb
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