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“The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.”

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Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet make it plain to the student that these are but the 'means' and not an end in themselves.”

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Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.”

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Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro

“[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

“"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.”

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Author:Yasumasa Morimura

“Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.”

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Author:Maria Shriver