“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
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“‘Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.”
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“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”
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“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
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“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”
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“To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.”
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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
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“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
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“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”