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~Mr Lely, I desire you would
use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at
all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you
see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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-Attr. to Oliver Cromwell in Horace Walpole's,
Anecdotes of Painting in England,
1763
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~Art is a jealous mistress,
and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or
philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise
in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days,
and spoil him for his proper work.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life, 1860
Ch.III, "Wealth"
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~In every work of genius
we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain
alienated majesty.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First Series, 1841
Essay II, "Self-Reliance"
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If a voice inside tells you that you are not
a painter, then by all means paint! And that voice will be silenced...
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-Vincent van Gogh
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~Art is the objectification
of feeling.
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-Susanne K. Langer
Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,
1967
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For every artist who has something to say
but the inability to say it well, there are two who could say something well
if they had something to say.
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-Paul C. Mills
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You know, music, art - these are not just
little decorations to make life prettier. They're very deep necessities
which people cannot live without.
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-Gregor Piatigorsky
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*The art of any given
period or culture is a faithful mirror of that culture's philosophy.
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-Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto, 1971
"Basic Principles of Literature", 1968
Originally appeared in The Objectivist, July-August, 1968
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*While physics has reached
the level where men are able to study subatomic particles and interplanetary
space, a phenomenon such as art has remained a dark mystery, with little or
nothing known about its nature, its function in human life or the cause of its
tremendous psychological power. Yet art is of passionately intense importance
and profoundly personal concern to most men---and it has existed in every
known civilization, accompanying man's steps from the early hours of his
prehistorical dawn, earlier than the birth of written language.
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-Ayn Rand
The Romantic Manifesto, 1971
"The Psycho-Epistemology of Art", 1965
Originally appeared in The Objectivist Newsletter, April, 1965
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied,
in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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-John Ruskin
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In art, truth that is boring is not
true.
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-Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Trust the art, not the artist.
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-Bruce Springsteen
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador
Dali. He was using a dotted line.
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-Steven Wright
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