No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

~ EDWARD HOPPER

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

~ MARCUS AURELIUS

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04.06.13 /09:28/♥ 38

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

~ ALBERT EINSTEIN

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03.18.13 /18:15/♥ 65

There ain’t no man can avoid being born average. But there ain’t no man got to be common.

~ SATCHEL PAIGE

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03.03.13 /17:53/♥ 21

Great artists suffer for the people.

~ MARVIN GAYE

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02.20.13 /17:13/♥ 47

That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

~ ALEXANDER CALDER

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01.12.13 /13:15/♥ 10

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

~ WILLIAM BLAKE

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12.28.12 /09:26/♥ 32

How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

~ DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

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11.23.12 /09:25/♥ 32

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good.

~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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11.15.12 /19:42/♥ 26

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

~ GEORGE BRASSAI

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11.08.12 /18:12/♥ 79

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.

~ DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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11.01.12 /20:05/♥ 32

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

~ EDOUARD MANET

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10.21.12 /18:06/♥ 195

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

~ PABLO PICASSO

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10.16.12 /17:32/♥ 10

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

~ LEO TOLSTOY

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