Tracey Emin quote: What's really good about the word 'art' is

“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.”

Doe Hands Eye Artist Records Painting Gestures Linear Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Graphs

Author:Roger Fry

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.”

Knows Humans Doe Perfect Perfection Notes Piano Imperfection Perfectionism

Author:Vladimir Horowitz

“One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.”

May Evil Easy Natural Ambition Consequence Tasks Discouraging Inconvenience Pernicious Proficiency Natural Consequences Easy Tasks

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.”

Kind Effects Color Broken Red Harmony Blue Variety Yellow Transparent Grandeur Red And Yellow

Author:Joshua Reynolds

“Perhaps blue, red, and yellow strike the mind more forcibly from there not being any great union between them, as martial music, which is intended to rouse the nobler passions.”

Mind Passion Red Blue Unions Strikes Yellow Red And Yellow

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.”

I Can Contemplation Endeavor

Book:The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy

Source: The Life and Writings of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy

“The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the model before you.”

Ifs Should Use Seems Color Models Copying

Book:The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.”

Art Bears Soil Peculiar Copying Imitating Deviation

Book:The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice

Source: The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice

“I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!”

Support Middle Stupid Fool East Middle East Incompetent Arafat

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

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