Art Inspires:

"Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change –it can not only move us, it makes us move."

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Art liberates "My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit." --Rei Kawakubo #ArtInspires #ReiKawakubo #CommedesGarcons

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Art architects "Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves." --Julia Morgan

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Art is living out loud If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. –Emile Zola (Magic Garden, Philadelphia)

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Art is poetry. Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. –Leonardo da Vinci (Henri Matisse, Dancers) #ArtInspires #HenriMatisse #Dancers

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Art creates.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou (The Age of Enlightenment—Antoine Lavoisler, by Yinka Shonibare) #Hirshhorn #YinkaShonibare

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Art is not superficial "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." –Oscar Wilde (Picasso, Girl before a Mirror)

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Art reveals "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." –Oscar Wilde (Andy Warhol by Alice Neel)

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Art is memory.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. –Salvador Dali (The Persistence of Memory, MoMA)

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Art is in the news – breaking, political, and deadly.

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Art = individualism

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. –Oscar Wilde (Rei Kawakubo/Art of the In-Between, the Met, 2017)

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Art is childhood.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. --Pablo Picasso (Three Musicians, PMA and MoMA)

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Art, WIP.

Art is never finished, only abandoned. –Leaonardo da Vinci (National Gallery of Art)

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Art (light bulb).

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. –Oscar Wilde (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2016)

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Art, mystery.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. –Albert Einstein (Emanation by Lampo Leong, Christies HK, 2016)

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Art reflects.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. –Frida Kahlo (MoMa, 2017)

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Art is diversity

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together. –Malcolm Forbes (Lygia Pape, the Met Breuer, 2017)

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Art believes.

To be an artist is to believe in life. –Henry Moore (The National Gallery in London, 2015)