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People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see. Leonardo da Vinci

Eyes People Nothing Ears Those See Perceive Adore Shall Open Open Eyes Talk Answer Hear Burn Lamps Them Who Receive

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Leonardo da Vinci

Experience Power Only Judgments Does Err Expecting Your Her

I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell. Marjane Satrapi

World Smoking Hell Would Am Go Go To Hell Quit Want Convinced

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Maurizio Cattelan

Truth Needs Truth Is Sometimes Tell Make Fiction Hard Plausible

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso

Truth Art Lie Makes Realize Us

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. Philip Guston

You Illusion Painting See Magic Piece

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. Rene Magritte

My works tends to be erotic. Wangechi Mutu

Tends Works

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white. Wassily Kandinsky

Man Stillness Pure White Finally Silent Strongly More Supernatural Towards Until Him Calls Becomes Sound Loses Infinite Blue Turns Awakening Deeper Brighter Desire

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal. Yoko Ono

Animal Honored Kind Mythical Powerful Very Lady Dragon

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom. Yoko Ono

You Experience People World Will Become Older Think More Smaller Opposite Blossom Get Just Senses Your Acute Start

To me, the concept of distance is not important. Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times. Yoko Ono

Love Music Time Me Important Distance Everywhere Neither Fact Concept Felt Does Exist Times Vibrations In Fact

We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser. Yoko Ono

Beautiful Time Together World Think Thinking Our Way Finding About Instead Wiser Know How Discovered Lot Up Getting Human Doomsday Race Human Race Growing Growing Up Things

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. Agnes Martin

Art Feelings Our Most Concrete Representation Subtle

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? Agnes Martin

Happiness Morning You Happy People Wake Up Feeling Painting Say Like Look Makes Goal Wake Up Them Who

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. Alfred Sisley

Master Possessed Though Must Remain Highest Surface His Times Craft Pitch Artist Beholder Sensation Loveliness Which Should Transmit Raised

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter. Alison Jackson

Life War You Matter Nice Live Living Enough Seconds Our Way Bit Syria Some Through Had Had Enough Over Know Fake Real Celebrity Going Anymore Screens Little Little Bit Room Your Switch Living Room Watch Images Programme

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. Andy Warhol

Art Great Daily Age Live Devalued Abstract Traditional Traditions Subjects Commercial Human Form Human Form Landscape Even Expressionism

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. Andy Warhol

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate. Ben Shahn

Photography Own My Own Became Interested Inadequate Sketching Found

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