Art
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"Being born is like being kidnapped."
Andy Warhol
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"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home for three days, I start spreading rumours about myself."
Andy Warhol
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"I want to be a machine."
Andy Warhol
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"I love Los Angeles, I love it."
Andy Warhol
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"Business art is the best art."
Andy Warhol
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"All the people a few people talk about and think about."
Andy Warhol
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"Art is what you can get away with."
Andy Warhol
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"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it."
Andy Warhol
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"The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's."
Andy Warhol
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"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."
Andy Warhol
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"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
Frida Kahlo
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"I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."
Frida Kahlo
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"My body is my own creation."
Frida Kahlo
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"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
Frida Kahlo
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"I paint my own reality."
Frida Kahlo
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"I am my own subject and I am the subject I know best."
Frida Kahlo
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"Let them paint red tears if they want."
Frida Kahlo
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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
Frida Kahlo
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"Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave."
Frida Kahlo
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"The only thing I know is that I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."
Frida Kahlo
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"The eye which truly sees is the one which sees with the soul."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; study the art of science."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Learning never exhausts the mind."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using intelligence; he is just using memory."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Every moment nature is doing something remarkable to acquire more."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."
Leonardo da Vinci
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"I can resist everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Oscar Wilde
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde
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"True love is always a fairy tale."
Oscar Wilde
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"I refuse to explain anything."
Oscar Wilde
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"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
Oscar Wilde
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
Oscar Wilde
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your existence is an act of rebellion."
Oscar Wilde
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
Oscar Wilde
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"Creativity takes courage."
Pablo Picasso
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul."
Pablo Picasso
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"It takes a long time to become young."
Pablo Picasso
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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Pablo Picasso
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
Pablo Picasso
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"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."
Pablo Picasso
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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Pablo Picasso
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"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
Pablo Picasso
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"To know what you want to draw, you have to begin to draw."
Pablo Picasso
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"I am always doing what I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
Vincent van Gogh
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
Vincent van Gogh
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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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"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Vincent van Gogh
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"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
Vincent van Gogh
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"The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love people."
Vincent van Gogh
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"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."
Vincent van Gogh
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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
Vincent van Gogh
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"What am I in the eyes of most people—a nonentity, an eccentric or unpleasant person."
Vincent van Gogh
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life."
Vincent van Gogh
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