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Quote by Robert Mapplethorpe
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. - Robert Mappl

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artists obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession. – Alberto Giacometti

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Art

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall

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Art

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesnt matter. Im not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesnt make us better, then what on earth is it for. – Alice Walker

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Art

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow

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Art

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