1. Pause for Thought

    Price on Art

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:31

    "Fine art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises."
     

    Quack on Art Meaning

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:52

    "Don't ask me what I want to express with my pictures, ask yourself, what they mean to you!"
       

    Reynolds on Rooms with Pictures

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:34

    "A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
       

    Richter on Intent

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:00

    "What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this.. to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom."
       

    Rodin on Artist Inside

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:43

    "Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. "
       

    Rosten on Artists

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:26

    "Every artist is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed."
       

    Rousseau on Nature

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:59

    "Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."
       

    Salvador Dalí on Morning Musings

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    "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí — and I ask myself in rapture, ‘What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?’"
       

    Shaw on Art

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    Monday, 29 November 2004 10:55

    "I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of colour, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting; and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed."
       

    Shaw on Reality

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:45

    "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. "
       

    St. Francis on Work

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:36

    "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist."
       

    Strand on the Artist's World

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:47

    "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."
       

    Tharp on Art

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:46

    "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "
       

    Tolstoy on Art

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:38

    "The task of art is enormous. Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion, that peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means-by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspection, etc.-should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. Art should cause violence to be set aside. And it is only art that can accomplish this."
       

    Van Gogh on Being Alive

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:48

    "The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting."
       

    Warhol on Critics

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    Thursday, 18 November 2004 16:50

    "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."
       

    Waugh on Discipline

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    Monday, 29 November 2004 10:54

    "A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions (though those are its raw materials), but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline."
       

    Wilde on Art

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:21

    "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
       

    Wright on Abstract

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:28

    "I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. "
       

    Zola on Work

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    Sunday, 21 November 2004 10:26

    "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
       

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