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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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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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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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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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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Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.
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Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
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Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
