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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.


James Whistler

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CYRIL CONNOLLY The vision of God is for you to submit your life completely to his dominion
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LOUIS NIZER Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
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EDGARD VARèSE An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
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ANA IVANOVIC The artist chooses his subject; that is his mode of praising.
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JAMES MADISON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER Love is what you've been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER Buy a book in brown paper
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To see Annie Liffey trip, tumble and caper. JAMES JOYCE British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut....
JAMES PUREFOY Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanat...
JAMES SINEGAL I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, '...
JAMES BAY I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly.
JAMES PUREFOY No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula...
JAMES THURBER Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER