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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

  Hair, Work Out, Able

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• Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Flower, Civilization, Borders

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• Things are beautiful if you love them.

  Jean Anouilh

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”

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• An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Feelings

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Children, Years, Oil Painting

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

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• Pictures must not be too picturesque.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Picturesque

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.215, Harvard University Press

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• What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother

  Hokusai

  Brother, Wall, Iron

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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

  Nature, Reality, Feelings

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

  Joan Miro

  Wind, Making Love, Painting

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• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  Albert Camus

  Work, Simple, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Native American, Steps, Well Known

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  Joan Miro

  Color, Trying, Shapes

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Color, Long

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Color, Design, Emotion

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Creative, Presidential

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

  Barbara Kruger

  Ideas, Light, Sorrow

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Moving, Mean

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also

  Paul Cezanne

  Color, Drawing, Achieve

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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

  Novalis

  Music, Architecture, Artist

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• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Cynical, Immature, Architecture

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Ends, Artist, Art Galleries

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• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Husband, Philosophy

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Taken, Serious, Artist

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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• Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Creativity, Effort, Wish

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.189, Macmillan

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• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  Quintilian

  Perfection, Design, Concealment

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