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ArT
qUoTeS for feb28
"...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
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge
for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty
of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development
of one's potential.
Bruce
Lee |
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ArT
qUoTeS for feb26
"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."
Brancusi
"I want to touch people with my art. I want them
to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.' "
Vincent Van Gogh |
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ArT
qUoTeS for feb24
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"If
people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't
seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo |
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ArT
qUoTeS for feb21
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I
can accomplish."
Michelangelo
"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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ArT
qUoTeS for feb19
"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his
vision."
James McNeill Whistler
"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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ArT
qUoTeS for feb17
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be
swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears,
your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself
believe."
Winston
Churchill
"Every
good painter paints what he is."
Jackson Pollock |
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ArT
qUoTeS for feb14
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others
see."
Degas
"Every
child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
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ArT
qUoTeS
"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
"The object of art is
not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the
same intensity."
Alberto Giacometti
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