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Frida Kahlo

"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

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Amber Hurdle

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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Amber Hurdle

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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Amber Hurdle

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

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Amber Hurdle

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

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Amber Hurdle

"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

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Amber Hurdle

"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."

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Amber Hurdle

"The true art of government consists in not governing too much."

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"My painting carries with it the message of pain."
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"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."
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"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."
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