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My mother was willing to support art as a summer program for me. She never supported it as a career decision until I won the National Gallery Portrait Competition.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Art Career Competition Decision Gallery Me Mother National Never Portrait Program She Summer Support Supported Until Willing Won

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Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Art Because Dead Fact Food Just Just Because Mean Painting Said Someone Soul Truth Way

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I went to an exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum about Shanghai, about how courtesans had been influential in bringing western culture to Shanghai. I bought a book and in it saw this striking group of women in a photograph called 'The Ten Beauties of Shanghai'.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Art Asian Beauties Been Book Bought Bringing Culture Exhibition Francisco Group Had How Influential Museum Photograph San Saw Shanghai Striking Ten Western Western Culture Women

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Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Art Artists As Far As Been Censorship Chinese Far Going Government Might Over Subversive Taking Think Thousands Thousands Of Years Years

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I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Aesthetic Art Become Craft First Good Just Myself Private Purely Something Stories Thing Very Wanted Write Writing

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Art Cease Familiar Function Magic Meaning New Our Perception Renew Scene See Shakes Up Writer

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

~Anatole Broyard

Topics: About Any Art Art Form Bad Form Makes More Offensive Other People Personally Play Real Real People Seeing Something Stage Than

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

~Anatole France

Topics: Afterwards Art Awakening Curiosity Minds Natural Only Purpose Satisfying Teaching Whole Young

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

~Anatole France

Topics: Art Enough Instinct Love

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

~Anatole France

Topics: Able Art Chance Come Could Earth Fabric Foolish Heaven Make More Rare Skill Than Think Oyster

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