"Find a beautiful piece of art. If..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
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“Any work of art must first of all tell a story.”
“If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.”
“It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.”
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“I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.”
“To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.”
“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.”