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- inspiring quotes relating to art |
The
aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance
of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle |
Picasso
is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who
gave me the wish to paint.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon |
"...I
paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures,
their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly
enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of
a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able
to work out why this happens."
Georg Baselitz |
"What
is real is not the external form, but the essence of things
. . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything
essentially real by imitating its exterior surface."
Constantin
Brancusi
Don't
look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is
pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until
you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
Constantin Brancusi
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Art
is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one
valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque |
Don't
be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that
the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in
harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne |
Those
who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali |
Do
not fear mistakes - there are none.
Miles David |
Art
is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Degas |
What
moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work,
is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that
what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix |
When
I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be
themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind
of guy, so I went in for corn.
Walt Disney |
The
longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes,
and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was
giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With
me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's
difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
Lucian Freud |
"The
object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create
a reality of the same intensity."
Alberto Giacometti
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My
contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will
draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for
as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same
as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together
man and the world. It lives through magic.
Keith Haring |
If
I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
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There
is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky |
How
important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly
that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance.
Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit the Frog |
What
I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity
devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesturewith the advantage
of permanence.
Henri Matisse |
I
feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with
the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give
my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan Miro |
To
be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore |
I
am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that
does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg |
I
don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
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.
Pablo Picasso |
On
the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part
of the painting, since this way I can walk around it,
work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock |
It
is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does
not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing
as good painting about nothing.
Mark Rothko |
In
our time there are many artists who do something because
it is new; they see their value and their justification
in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty
is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing
only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
Deals
are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas
or write wonderful poetry.I like making deals, preferably
big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Donald Trump |
.
. I have always sought to be understood and, while I was
taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they
were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be
understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole
life without hatred and even without bitterness toward
criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely
on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless
baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for
him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make
it more so.
Henri Matisse |
The
position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a
channel.
Piet Mondrian |
It
is important to express oneself...provided the feelings
are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot |
No
longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women
knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel
and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch |
Painting
is a means of self-enlightenment.
John Olsen |
I
begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso |
Painting
is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt |
You
come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them
all flat.
Pierre Auguste Renoir |
For
me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the
night, a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault |
Everytime
I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent |
He
who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with
his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with
his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
St Fancis of Assisi |
I
want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he
feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
Vincent Van Gogh |
It
is not the language of painters but the language of nature
which one should listen to, the feeling for the things
themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling
for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without
knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh
The
only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Mark
Rothko's paintings are.... "like television sets
for Zen Buddhists"
Unknown |
The
fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy,
always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the
game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic
fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe,
the centre of the meaning of existense Brett
Whiteley
Art is the thrilling spark that beats death - thats all
Brett Whiteley |
It
is through art, and through art only, that we can realize
our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield
ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Oscar Wilde
Art
is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world
has known.
Oscar Wilde |
The
artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing
without work.
Emile Zola |
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