AUTHOR: Joan Miró
QUOTATION: "Art class was like a religious ceremony to me.
I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils.
The instruments of work were sacred objects to me."
ATTRIBUTION: London Observer 10 Jun 79
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AUTHOR: Beverly Sills
QUOTATION: "Art is the signature of civilizations."
ATTRIBUTION: NBC TV 4 May 85
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AUTHOR: Luis Barragán
QUOTATION: "Art is made by the alone for the alone."
ATTRIBUTION: Time 12 May 80
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AUTHOR: Marc Chagall
QUOTATION: "Great art picks up where nature ends."
ATTRIBUTION: Time 30 Dec 85
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AUTHOR: Marshall McLuhan
QUOTATION: "I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system
that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
ATTRIBUTION: Understanding Media McGraw-Hill 64
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AUTHOR: Federico Fellini
QUOTATION: "All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography."
ATTRIBUTION: On autobiographical nature of his films, Atlantic Dec 65
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AUTHOR: Henry Moore
QUOTATION: [Discipline in art is]"a fundamental struggle to understand oneself,
as much as to understand what one is drawing."
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AUTHOR: Claudia (“Lady Bird”) Johnson
QUOTATION: "Art is the window to man’s soul.
Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world;
nor could the world see the man within."
ATTRIBUTION: At opening of an addition to Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, NY Times 25 May 64
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AUTHOR: Leonard Bernstein
QUOTATION: "Any great work of art … revives and readapts time and space,
and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world
— the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
ATTRIBUTION: “What Makes Opera Grand?” Vogue Dec 58
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AUTHOR: Margot Fonteyn
QUOTATION:" Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike."
ATTRIBUTION: Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography Knopf 76
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AUTHOR: Robert Motherwell
QUOTATION: "Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask.
Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask."
ATTRIBUTION: On relationship between torment and creativity, NY Times 17 Nov 85
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AUTHOR: Marc Chagall
QUOTATION: "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette,
which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
ATTRIBUTION: Newsweek 8 Apr 85
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