Quotations
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Art
«When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!»
«While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.»
«Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.»
Author: Walker Evans
(Photographer)
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Photography
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joyous, photographer, photographers, sensualist, The Eye, the photographer, traffics
«Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science»
«When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Art
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cooks, regiment, regimented, The Band
«When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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Art
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in advance, lag, lagged, lagging, lags, work of art
«When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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Art
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abstracting, egg, end up, more and more, portrait