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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

—Frank Zappa

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Great art picks up where nature ends.

—Marc Chagall

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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

—Henri Matisse

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Life is short, the art long.

—Hippocrates

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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

—Lincoln Steffens

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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

—Edward Steichen

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

—Robert Motherwell

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

—Havelock Ellis

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

—Philip Johnson

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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

—Philip James Bailey

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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

—Samuel Daniel

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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

—James Huneker

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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

—Alfred Sisley

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

—Joshua Reynolds

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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

—Honoré de Balzac

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