Childe Hassam Quotes
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.
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I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.
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Religion and ethics were not always-or even frequently-mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.
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Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
