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"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
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"Beauty is beauty."
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"Oh, glorious Art!" thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. "Thou art the image of the Creator's own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The dead live again. Thou recallest them to their old scenes, and givest their gray shadows the lustre of a better life, at once earthly and immortal. Thou snatchest back the fleeing moments of History. With thee, there is no Past; for at thy touch, all that is great becomes forever present; and illustrious men live through long ages in the visible performance of the very deeds which made them what they are."
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"Beauty is subjective. You know how sometimes what makes a person attractive is the way they make you laugh or how it seems like they can read your mind?"
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"Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful."
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"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."
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"Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART."
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"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one's life. There is an urge to say, 'I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."
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"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."
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"I've alway found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect."
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"As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
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"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
Nature
"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
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"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
Art
"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
Art
"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
Art
"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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