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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

  Art, Hair, Work Out

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• The majority of (painters), because they aren't colorists, do not see yellow, orange or sulphur in the South (of France) and they call a painter mad if he sees with eyes other than theirs

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Eye, Yellow, Orange

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• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Life, Romantic

  "Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.

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• Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

  John French Sloan

  Energy, Vitality, Painting

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• An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Art, Design

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

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• I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters do grasp it, unconsciously; but I believe that a painter's conscious spiritual knowledge will have a much greater influence upon his art, and that it would be due only to a weakness in him, or lack of genius, should this spiritual knowledge be harmful to his art.

  Piet Mondrian

  Spiritual, Art, Philosophy

  Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Creative, Would Be

  Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

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• "Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

  Horace

  Giving, Liberty, Poet

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• No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

  Paul Gauguin

  Crazy, People, Want

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Doors

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

  Leonora Carrington

  Moving, Garden, Light

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• What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Men, Passing Away

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2011). “Da Vinci Notebooks”, p.93, Profile Books

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• I draw manga, therefore I am!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Art, Drawing, Draws

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Wisdom is the daughter of experience

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Daughter, Wisdom, Intelligent

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.31, eKitap Projesi

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• The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Men, Sea

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1171, Delphi Classics

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• I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Happy, Lasts

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• Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Love, Life, Adversity

  "Da Vinci Notebooks".

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• Choose only one master - Nature.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Choices

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Friendship, Real, Intelligent

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Norman Rockwell

  Life, Moving On, Travel

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

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