"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."

Logan P. Smith, American Writer

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"An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine."

Andres Serrano, American Photographer

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"The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting."

Alfred Sisley, British Artist

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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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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."

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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."

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"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."

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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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"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."

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"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting."

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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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"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."

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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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"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."

"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums."