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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster 
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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