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Quote of the Day November 14, 2026

“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”

Denis Diderot · Government

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Auguste Rodin

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

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Roy Lichtenstein

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

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Paul Getty

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

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Edgard Varese

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

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Laurie Anderson

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

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Robert Motherwell

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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Henri Matisse

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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