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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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  • It is well to remember that a picture - before being a battle horse, a nude woman, or some anecdote - is essentially a plain surface covered with colors in a certain order. (Maurice Denis)
  • To go backward is to do nothing, to waste effort, to have neither understood nor profited from the lessons of the past. (Gustave Courbet)
  • ...while photographs may not lie, liars may photograph. (Lewis Hine)
  • A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee)
  • Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. (van Gogh)
  • Clearly there isn't enough art in our schools when kids think Man Ray is a poisonous jellyfish. (Americans for the Arts advertisement)
  • My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. (Odilon Redon)
  • Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture. (Henry Ward Beecher)
  • An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. (Jean Cocteau)
  • You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. (Auguste Renoir)
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