"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."
James McNeill Whistler
' quotes[1]='"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
' quotes[2]='"We have art in order not to die of life."
Albert Camus
' quotes[3]='"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then,
is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
' quotes[4]='"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton
' quotes[5]='"The greatest tragedy in art is when theory outstrips performance."
Leonardo da Vinci
' quotes[6]='"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
Edward Hopper
' quotes[7]='"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola
' quotes[8]='"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature"
Cicero
' quotes[9]='"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
' quotes[10]='"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
Spinoza
' quotes[11]='"If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery,
it would not seem wonderful at all."
Michelangelo Buonarroti
' quotes[12]='"First you draw what you see. Next, you draw what you know,
and only then will you know what it is that you see."
Robert Beverly Hale
' quotes[13]='"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
John F. Kennedy
' quotes[14]='"However skillful an artist may be, and however perfect his technique,
if he is unhappy and has nothing to tell us, his work is valueless."
Jaques Maritain
' quotes[15]='"No great artist ever sees things as they really are.
If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde
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