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"The Masses marked, I have been told, the first appearance of "realism" in an American magazine. But I was ignorant of, and indifferent to, schools of art and literature. Of the new movement in art rep…"

""There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.""

""Different men are moved or left cold by lines according to the difference in their natures. What moves you is beautiful to you.""

""Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you."Henri, Robert (2007) [1923], p. 285."

""Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's e…"

""It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.""

"Age, like distance, lends a double charm."

"And we are put on earth a little space,That we may learn to bear the beams of love,And these black bodies and this sunburnt faceIs but a cloud, and like a shady grove."

"My mother bore me in the southern wild,And I am black, but O! my soul is white;White as an angel is the English child,But I am black as if bereaved of light."

"Little Lamb, who made thee?Dost thou know who made thee?Gave thee life and bid thee feedBy the stream and o'er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing, woolly bright."

"Sing louder aroundTo the bells' cheerful sound,While our sports shall be seenOn the ecchoing green."

"And I made a rural pen,And I stained the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear."

"Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb."So I piped with merry cheer;"Piper, pipe that song again."So I…"

"They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin."

"True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man."

"How have you left the ancient loveThat bards of old enjoyed in you!The languid strings do scarcely move!The sound is forced, the notes are few!"

"Like a fiend in a cloud,With howling woe,After night I do crowd,And with night will go;I turn my back to the east,From whence comforts have increased;For light doth seize my brainWith frantic pain."

"My silks and fine array,My smiles and languished air,By love are driv'n away;And mournful lean DespairBrings me yew to deck my grave:Such end true lovers have."

"He loves to sit and hear me sing,Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty."

"How sweet I roamed from field to field,And tasted all the summer's pride,Till I the prince of love beheld,Who in the sunny beams did glide!"

"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?"

"Vincent van Gogh paintings and letters with dictionary"

"Indian contemporary artists have not come to this standard. So I feel happy that I could present something to them. My work has a different meaning and something like this has never been done by any o…"

"He was the undisputed jewel in the crown of Indian music; one who will not be born in the next few centuries. He gave a new meaning to shehnai."

"A year ago we liberated them from the Fascist Monster, and they still sit doing their best to smile politely at us, as hungry as ever, more disease-ridden than ever before, in the ruins of their beaut…"

"It would be very difficult to formulate a position in which there were no external relations. I cannot imagine any structure being defined as though it only has internal meaning."

"In my experience, women tend to be less tribal, they tend to find it easier to establish trust more quickly"

"Chinese Palace. The Peterhof States Museum Reserve of Russia, Chinese Palace"

"Web site of Sita Sings The Blues"

"The picture of a naked girl is the most peaceful, but also the most unveiling image you can create, so it is very powerful. We live in a patriarchal system where the is totally controlled and used. Wo…"

"Actually I don't have any painting at home.. ..they take away everything from me, almost before it's finished.. .That Jewish scribe there, is sold to Buffa, and it isn't finished at all yet. And this …"

"Graphic work as the expressive movement of the hand holding the recording pencil.. ..is so fundamentally different from dealing with tone and color that one can use this technique quite well in the da…"

"Much of the work of the Masters is carried out by Their disciples, men and women in the world ---- people such as Da Vinci, Mozart, Lincoln, Einstein, and Madame Curie. By a gradual stimulus of our co…"

"We, at our different levels, from the mineral kingdom up to the Kingdom of God itself, are carrying out an evolutionary process, which, in its summation, will make this planet a perfect expression of …"

"..the wall, the window or the door — and so many other images that parade in my canvases — are indeed there and I am far from trying to hide the fact. With this I mean that I do not think that images,…"

"Work of the late cybernetic sculptor Edward Ihnatowicz"

"She picks up the baby and contemplates the Bonsai-bush, and, as we watch, in the growing half-dark, the Bonsai-bush flowers. On the black-and-white film, the thousands of flower-petals blush a deep re…"

"When seen as a whole, art derives from a person's desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. A…"

"In simple terms: art has not been a public nuisance for quite a while now. either the people have become well-behaved or the perpetrators of nuisances have become tired."

"Your needs are your choice. Because they are your choice, this means you are not bound by them. You can choose to change your needs."

"We're not here just to take part; we're here to take over."

"What quaint English. They make an unpredictable linguistic duo."

"Will the real Monet please stand up?"

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

"When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I…"

"More and more, men are beginning to understand the severity of the problems which face them today. On all fronts — political, economic and social — these problems multiply and cause much heartache and…"

"I think my work is different from comic strip – but I wouldn't call it transformation.. .What I do is form, whereas the comic strip is not formed in the sense I'm using the word; the comics have shape…"

"You and I are One — Whoever, whatever, wherever you are, tread the divine water of cleanliness which is detachment. I have not come to teach you anything new. Be honest to yourself, sincere to yoursel…"

"It stimulates the good, and people look at the good and see the good, but it also stimulates the bad, and people look at the bad, and see the bad... But at the same time, if they would look with educa…"

"I feel a conscious attempt to be more and more related to society. That's what's important to me as a person. I'm not going to let other people make all the changes; and if you do that, you can't curt…"

"The Drawing Restraint Web Site"

"Were I to concentrate exclusively on the body of Prometheus, I would be seriously limiting the scope of my rendering of the demigod; but because I concentrate also on the myth of Prometheus, on all th…"

"I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscio…"

"I believe that as a martial artist even if you can't win a fight, you should be able to not be able to die or lose."

"If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."

"I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it."

"Everyone thinks their monsters are visible to the world, but they're not - they're figments of our overblown imaginations, warped projections of our own self-image. Once you stop seeing them, they'll …"

"The one place for art-as-art is the museum of fine art. The reason of the museum or fine art is the preservation of ancient and modern art that cannot be made again and that does not have to be done a…"

"The greatest painter of the T’ang epoch, and, by common consent, of all the Far East, rose above distinctions of school, and belonged rather to the Buddhist tradition of Chinese art. Wu Tao-tze deserv…"

"The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such …"