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Quote by James Whistler
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James Wh

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. – James Whistler

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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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I dont listen to what art critics say. I dont know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. – Jean-Michel Basquiat

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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. – Gustave Flaubert

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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You cant invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. – David Herbert Lawrence

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