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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Danger, Made

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• My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

  Jackson Pollock

  Painting, Interest, Depends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Believe, Writing

  "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Roberto Alifano, 1984.

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• True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Memorable, Creativity

  Albert Einstein, Helen Dukas (1981). “Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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  All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 22, 2009

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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• Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Good Art, Good Artist

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Humble, Humility

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• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

  Camille Pissarro

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Freedom, Painter

  Wassily Kandinsky (1981). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.52, Library of Alexandria

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• If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Art Galleries

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• The painting has a life of its own

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Art, Intuition

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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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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• God and other artists are always a little obscure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Littles, Obscure

  Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). “The annotated Oscar Wilde: poems, fiction, plays, lectures, essays, and letters”, Clarkson Potter

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• After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Skills, Levels

  "Beautiful minds" by Peter D Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2002.

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• Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, People, Important

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 06, 2015

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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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• The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

  George Bellows

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Art

  George Bellows, Catherine Anne Green (1981). “George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 7-September 7, 1981”

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• An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

  Patti Smith

  House, Ordinary, Citizens

  "The Wisdom of Patti Smith" by Victoria Dawson Hoff, www.elle.com. December 30, 2013.

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• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Thinking, Names

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Knowledge, Doe

  "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century". Book edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

  Robert Schumann

  Inspiring, Art, Men

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

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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