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Eugene Delacroix 1799-1863
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty; to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. 
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886-1969
Less is more.

Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
(A house is a machine for living in.)

Joseph Roux 1834-1886
Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Josef Vissarionovich Stalin 1879-1953  
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
 
 

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