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“I've never felt that I was doing something for my people, except what I could to bring the accomplishments of the old ones to the attention of the world. I think the Northwest Coast style of art is an absolutely unique product, one of the crowning achievements of the whole human experience. I just don't want the whole thing swept under the carpet without someone paying attention to it.”

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Author:Bill Reid

“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.”

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Book:Illuminations

Source: Illuminations

“No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.”

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Author:Rosalind E. Krauss

“It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“While we travel as much as we do; this city is still really unique to us in terms of how eclectic it is. There's the variation of pockets when you're travelling around London that you don't necessarily find in the centre, but I'm talking about the city as a whole. For us, the inseparable links to the arts, being innovative and creative in an area like this is very transient as well.”

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Author:Jazzie B

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

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Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

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Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”

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Book:Musicophilia

Source: Musicophilia

“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