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Arts and Artists

I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards, the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy, when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, `Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.'
Virginia Woolf

The Italian artist, Modigliani, a heavy drinker, painted some of his finest pictures when under the influence. A dealer once pleaded with him to go on the wagon.
``If you can paint like an angel when you are drunk,'' he argue, ``you could create masterpieces if you sobered up.''
``I doubt it,'' Modigliani said. ``Oil and water don't mix, you know,''
Funny Funny World

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like children.
Picasso

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