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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso 
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Honore De Balzac
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