"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."
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"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"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."
"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
"Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work."
"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be."
"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
"Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker."
"Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen."
"Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake."
"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
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