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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Edward Steichen

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Fred Tomaselli

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

Georg Baselitz

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

Gustave Courbet

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

Joshua Reynolds

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

John Singer Sargent

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Philip Guston

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The Nature Of Natural History

O, über die weilden, unbiegsamen Männer, die nur immer ihr stieres Auge auf das Gespenst der Ehre heften!

Minna von Barnhelm

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Brigham Young

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

John James Audubon

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Jack Kevorkian

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

Jim Ramstad

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Luther Burbank

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Lawrence M. Krauss

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Ralph Steadman

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus