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“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

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Author:Titian

“Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.”

Art Facts Violence Injustice Cruelty

Book:The Manifesto of Futurism

Source: The Manifesto of Futurism

“Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.”

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Author:Alexander Stoddart

“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is the same in every field of knowledge. Knowledge is power only if a man knows what facts not to bother about.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.”

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Book:The Middle Works, 1899-1924

Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924

“"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.”

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Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I definitely use "smiling while rapping" as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. At times it can get tedious and stressful when it's not sounding the way you heard it in your head, but you've got to remember to just smile and appreciate the fact that you're even in the booth and there are people who want to hear your art.”

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Author:Macklemore

“I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such constant "ups," which is a repugnant attitude any way one chooses to look at it. I definitely believe in the possibility of happiness, though; it's just something that I think, rightfully, is rare in its genuine form, and that it can't be counterfeited.”

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Author:Chris Ware

“Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.”

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Author:Charles Burnett