"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
William Faulkner
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
Schumann
"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."
Henri Matisse
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
André Gide
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
Oscar Wilde
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
Marc Chagall
"God and other artists are always a little obscure."
Oscar Wilde
"What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you, but one, can every shadow lend."
Shakespeare
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