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"I want paint to work as flesh."

Lucian Freud

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"When a piece of sculpture or a musical composition produces an emotion that one feels to be higher, purer, truer than ordinary life, such a work must correspond to a certain spiritual reality."

Marcel Proust

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"The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth."

Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer

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David Seidner, Cy Twombly’s Desk

Jean-Michel Basquiat, To Repel Ghosts™, 1986. Acrylic on wood, 112 x 83 x 10 cm. Collection Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris

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Odilon Redon 1840-1916, The Lost Angel Then Opened Black Wings, from Night, 1886, Lithograph

"Art is lies that tell the truth."

Pablo Picasso

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Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), oil on canvas, by Francis Bacon

"Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies."

Rollo May

Ed Ruscha, He Didn’t Care And Neither Did She, cherries on satin, 1974.

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The Student (1881) by Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846 - 1898)

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