"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."

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"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."

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"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."

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"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."

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"I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born."

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"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw."

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"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."

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"Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence."

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"The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women."

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"You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing."

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"Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."

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"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."

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Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."

Barack Obama, American President

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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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