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Give me a museum and I'll fill it
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced
We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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