Art

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the picture is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
 Marc Chagall
 1977

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. 
 Hendrik W. Van Loon
 The Arts,

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
 Henry Ward Beecher
 1855

We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have, our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
 Henry James
 The Middle Years, 1893

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