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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. – W. H. Auden

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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahns work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isnt simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved isms and twists. – Jerry Saltz

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When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Resolve and thou art free. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde

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