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"It is the job of the artist ...      to think outside the boundaries of permissable thought and dare to say things that no one else will say."                                                                                                                                  Howard Zinn, from The Artist in Times of War

"The truest protest is beauty."   Phil Ochs, folksinger

“Black is the queen of colors.”    Auguste Rodin “Black is not a color.”    Edouard Manet

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“How often haven’t I found that wanting to use a blue, I didn’t have it...                                              ... so I used a red instead of the blue.”    Pablo Picasso

“The painter can only do good things when he no longer knows what he is doing.”   Edgar Degas

“   A   p   a   i   n   t   i   n   g    i   s   a    f   l   a   t     s   u   r   f   a   c   e    w   i  t   h    p   a   i   n   t     o   n    i   t   .   ”       Motto of Constructivism

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”    Ad Reinhardt "We don't take fun seriously enough."  designer Charles Eames.......

"I hate flowers.  I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move!”    Georgia O’Keefe

"The only persons who should be listened to, upon any subject, are artists."   Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel

" First I dream my painting, then I paint my dream."    Vincent van Gogh   "Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life."    Steve Jobs   "Gravity is a response to geometry."     Albert Einstein   "If nothing else, I'm making a movie that I'll enjoy."  Zack Braff, writer, director, actor   "Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you."   Thich Nhat Hanh   " We're here on earth to fart around. "   Kurt Vonnegut   " We have the ability.in Lake Wobegon to look reality in the eye ... and ignore it. "     Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion   “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”     Rumi   "The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values    and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions." Edward De Bono, Handbook For the Positive Revolution   "The best museum is Bloomingdales."  Andy Warhol   "It doesn't matter how the paint is put on -- as long as something is said."   Jackson Pollock   "It takes a long time to make it simple."    David Hockney     "It's not so much 'Do what you like' as it is 'Like what you do'."                                                         Stephen Sondheim, from "Sunday in the Park With George"   "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."   Frank Zappa   "... there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else."   Billy Al Bengston     *** < RETURN to Contents Page