"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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"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
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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."
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"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."
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"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
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"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
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"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."
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"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning."
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"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."
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"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."
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"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
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"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."
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"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake."
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"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
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