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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul."

"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."

"The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error."

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
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"Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do."

"You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era."

"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."

"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."

"But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years."
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