Quote by James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. – Doris Humphrey

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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. – André Malraux

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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper

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I wont quarrel with my bread and butter. – Jonathan Swift

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