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“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone”
Michelangelo quotes (Italian sculptor, painter, architect & poet, considered the creator of the Renaissance, 1475-1564)
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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso quotes (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
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“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.”
John Lubbock quotes (English Biologist and Politician, 1834-1913)
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“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”
Michelangelo quotes (Italian sculptor, painter, architect & poet, considered the creator of the Renaissance, 1475-1564)
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
William Somerset Maugham quotes (English short-story Writer, Novelist and Playwright, 1874-1965)
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“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
Pablo Picasso quotes (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973)
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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Art is the signature of civilizations.”
Beverly Sills quotes ( . b.1929)
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“Art is the path of the creator to his work”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees”
Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)
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