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To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

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I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

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Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

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Resolve and thou art free.

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In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

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If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

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All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

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No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

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All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.

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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

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Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

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Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

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