Quote by Robert Schumann
To send light into the darkness of mens hearts - such is the duty

To send light into the darkness of mens hearts – such is the duty of the artist. – Robert Schumann

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. – Robert Schumann

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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. – Walter Hagen

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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. – Robert Motherwell

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Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. – Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage. – Liz Phair

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Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think. – Dixie Carter

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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. – John Berger

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The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. – Colin Wilson

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