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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
Henri Cartier-Bresson 
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Friedrich Schiller
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
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