Art And Artists Quotes - Page 2

• Every artist writes his own autobiography.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Writing, Architecture

  New Spirit (1890) "Tolstoi"

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• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

  James Whistler

  Tattoo, Art, Creativity

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• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Creative, Stealing

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "ELAC’s VPAM: A Game Changer for L.A. Art Scene" by Max Benavidez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Children, Years

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

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• You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Creativity

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandon, Artist

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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.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Drawing, Long

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• What moves those of genius, 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

  Art, Moving, Ideas

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