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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great art picks up where nature ends.