"Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist."

-- Paul Gauguin

#Art Quotes #Art Is Quotes

“The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.”

Source : Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120
“My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.”

Source : "Shirley MacLaine Says You Only Need 3 Things In Life", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2014.
“Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.”

Source : John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.8, Manchester University Press
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing
“An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.”

Source : Denis Hayes (2000). “The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair”, p.40, Island Press
“The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.”

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