I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men. ~Coco Chanel
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats. ~James Harden
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts. ~George Miller
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice. ~Joyce Carol Oates
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We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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There is no burnt rice to a hungry person. ~Philippine Proverb
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Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Life begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every new day is another chance to change your life. ~Native American Proverb
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A proverb is to speech what salt is to food. ~Arabic Proverb
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