"Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created."

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Source : John Marin (1970). “John Marin”

John Marin

#Art Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“You conquered the landscape with the soles of shoes, not the tires.”
“If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?”
“I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.”
“I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.”
“The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.”
“Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.”

Source : "NAACP Endorses Same-sex Marriage" By Jason Donner, www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2012.
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.”

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