"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

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"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Art, Work, Heart, Grace

"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Awaken, Soul, Spirit

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

Claude Monet, French Artist

Art, Day, Joy, Obsession

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Art, Music, Winter, Nature

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Art, Love, Creativity, Inspirational, Passion

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

Kenneth Clark, British Author

Art, Feeling, Morals, Shadow

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

Bill Dixon, American Musician

Art, Work, People, Attention

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Art, Time, Committee, Nothing

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Art, Music, Talent, Skill, Perception

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"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else."

Life

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

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"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."

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"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

Flowers

"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."

Energy

"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language."

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"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Music awaken our soul."

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else."

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

"With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft."

"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language."

"Work cures everything."

"Exactitude is not truth."

"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."