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"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand."
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"Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can."
"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."
"But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition- and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation- and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity- the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."
"Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?"
"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."
"Sometimes a writer simply finds new ways of saying what has already been said because, ultimately, truth is unoriginal."
"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."
"I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do."
"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."
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"We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."
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