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Leonardo da Vinci

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."

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"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."

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"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."

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"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

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"Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself."

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"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."

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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

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"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

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"Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists."

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"Queen of arts and daughter of heaven."

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"You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same."

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