Winston Churchill: I am never going to have anything more...

Quote	I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Copy
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Quote: I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
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Author:
Walt Disney
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Art

I take great pride...

Quote: Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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Author:
Walt Disney
Category:
Art

Mickey Mouse popped out...

Quote: The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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Author:
Voltaire
Category:
Art

The little may contrast...

Quote: I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
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Author:
Dr. Seuss
Category:
Art

I start drawing, and...

Quote: Every artist was first an amateur.
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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:
Art

Every artist was first...

Quote: Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself.
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Author:
Mahatma Gandhi
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Art

Real education consists in...

Quote: In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home, the only thing I have power over is the garbage.
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Author:
Bob Ross
Category:
Art

In painting, you have...

Quote: Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

Every portrait that is...

Quote: I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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Author:
Albert Einstein
Category:
Art

I am enough of...

Quote: No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

No great artist ever...

Quote: In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

In its primary aspect,...

Quote: If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
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Author:
Winston Churchill
Category:
Art

If it weren't for...

Quote: Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

Nothing, indeed, is more...

Quote: All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
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Author:
Maya Angelou
Category:
Art

All great artists draw...

Quote: In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Category:
Art

In art, the hand...

Quote: I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
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Author:
Nelson Mandela
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Art

I cannot conceive of...

Quote: We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.
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Author:
Bob Ross
Category:
Art

We want happy paintings....

Quote: I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

I think it is...

Quote: I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.
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Author:
Bob Ross
Category:
Art

I started painting as...

Quote: The tongue like a sharp knife… Kills without drawing blood.
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Author:
Buddha
Category:
Art

The tongue like a...

Quote: The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

The critic has to...

Quote: Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
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Author:
Rumi
Category:
Art

Inside you there’s an...

Quote: May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul.
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Author:
Albert Einstein
Category:
Art

May they not forget...

Quote: The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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Author:
Albert Einstein
Category:
Art

The great moral teachers...

Quote: Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

Technique is really personality....

Quote: If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

If a work of...

Quote: Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
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Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:
Art

Thus the man who...

Quote: Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Author:
Oscar Wilde
Category:
Art

Art should never try...

Quote: The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
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Author:
Aristotle
Category:
Art

The poet, being an...

Quote: I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.
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Author:
Bob Ross
Category:
Art

I can't think of...

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