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Quote by Henri Matisse
Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these valu

Time extracts various values from a painters work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. – Henri Matisse

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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Doing art… anything creative, is just a spiritual thing to do. I almost feel like every comic strip I do is sort of a little prayer. And I really feel like the only thing real is love. – Patrick McDonnell, “Super Soul Short: Inside the Mind Behind Mutts,” Super Soul

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? – Lou Reed

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