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Picasso
is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who
gave me the wish to paint.
Francis Bacon
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else,
anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon |
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...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 |
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I
myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through
me.
William Blake |
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To
see far is one thing, going there is another.
Constantin Brancusi
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi
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 |
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Who
in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll |
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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
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living,
but I thought that one could do good painting without
attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly,
an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much
as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure
must be found in the work.
Paul Cezanne |
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Great
art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall |
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The
beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the
most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs
to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Gustave Courbet |
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Have
no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali |
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Art
is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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If
I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
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I
never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo |
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There
is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky |
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A
Good artist has less time than ideas.
Martin Kippenberger
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
Martin Kippenberger |
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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 |
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Poor
is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci |
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Life
obliges me to do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte |
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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 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
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse |
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If
people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't
seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo |
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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 |
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The
position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a
channel.
Piet Mondrian |
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| Colour
is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude
Monet |
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To
be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore |
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It
is important to express oneself...provided the feelings
are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot |
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Nature
is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes
the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard
Munch
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 |
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So
I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower
is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised
into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy
New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that
I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe |
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I
am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that
does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg |
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Painting
is a means of self-enlightenment.
John Olsen |
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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
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock |
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If
you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as
you change your shirts.
Francis Picabia |
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I
don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain
an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
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Painting
is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt |
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You
come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them
all flat.
Pierre Auguste Renoir |
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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 |
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For
me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the
night, a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault |
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Everytime
I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent |
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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 only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say
'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
Vincent Van Gogh
The
emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing
it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I
have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If
I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another
job.
Andy
Warhol
Making money is art and working is art and good business
is the best art.
Andy Warhol
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into
slavery.
Andy Warhol
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you.
Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol
Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make
you look like a star.
Andy
Warhol |
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An
artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James McNeill Whistler |
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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
Everything is such a sort of stoned state... I walk around
with a bunch of violets in my hand and a sledgehammer
and a grain of sand in my head. I am happy.
Brett Whiteley |
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