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“Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.”

“Realism was the death of art.”

“..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

“Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.”

“This man has one dominating idea..to fill space in a beautiful way.”

“Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.”

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"A certain scenario kept repeating itself. The people from the magazines would take two or three shots of the band. They’d start to pack up. And then they’d sort of take me off into a corner by myself.…"

— Chris Cornell

Music1964–2017

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"many images of paintings of Edgar Degas, on Wikiart"

— Edgar Degas

Art1834–1917

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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. After all, what is a painter? He is a collector who gets what he likes in others by painting them himself. This is how I begin and then it beco…"

— Pablo Picasso

Art1881–1973

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"transformation of the blind course of nature into one that is rational is bound to appear to the learned as a disruption of order, although this order of theirs brings only disorder among men, strikin…"

— Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov

Philosophy1829–1903

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