All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

— Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

— Marie Curie Quotes

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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

— Albert Einstein Quotes

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Our best work was never recorded.Our best work was never recorded.

— John Lennon Quotes

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I don’t really know if my paintings are surreal or not, but I do know that they represent the frankest expression of myself.I don’t really know if my paintings are surreal or not, but I do know that they represent the frankest expression of myself.

— Frida Kahlo Quotes

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I always liked simple rock and nothing else.I always liked simple rock and nothing else.

— John Lennon Quotes

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The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood.The instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood.

— Aristotle Quotes

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Without music life would be a mistake.Without music life would be a mistake.

— Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

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You were called AUXOCHROME the one who captures color. I CHROMOPHORE—the one who gives color.You were called AUXOCHROME the one who captures color. I CHROMOPHORE—the one who gives color.

— Frida Kahlo Quotes

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I paint flowers so they will not die.I paint flowers so they will not die.

— Frida Kahlo Quotes

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The painter should aim at universality, because there is a great want of self-respect in doing one thing well and another badly, as many do who study only the [rules of] measure and proportion in the nude figure and do not seek after variety; for a man may be well proportioned, or he may be fat and short, or tall and thin, or medium.The painter should aim at universality, because there is a great want of self-respect in doing one thing well and another badly, as many do who study only the [rules of] measure and proportion in the nude figure and do not seek after variety; for a man may be well proportioned, or he may be fat and short, or tall and thin, or medium.

— Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

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Ideas make the world we live in, and impressions furnish ideas.Ideas make the world we live in, and impressions furnish ideas.

— Helen Keller Quotes

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