Artist Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

  Gustave Courbet

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

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• When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.

  Walt Disney

  Being Yourself, Art, Book

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• The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.192, The Museum of Modern Art

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• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Feet, World

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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• For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

  William McElcheran

  Art, Craftsman, Mystic

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• Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• A Good artist has less time than ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Art, Ideas, Inspirational Art

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

  Georges Rouault

  Art, Night, Laughing

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• What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Thinking, Fool

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• Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Jobs, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All art is autobiographical.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Art Is

  The Atlantic, December 1965.

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• Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Art, Vision

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• The artist must say it without saying it.

  Duke Ellington

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• Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Fashion, Essentials, Novelty

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  A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

  Christian Dior

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Saving the Whales". Book by D. R. Schneider (p. 77), September 1, 2008.

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• My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

  John Lennon

  Hippie, Reflection, People

  John Lennon, Wulf Herzogenrath, Dorothée Hansen (1995). “John Lennon: drawings, performances, films”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Men, Want

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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Nature, Environment

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• What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Unique, People, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

  Debbie Harry

  Today, Equal, Businessman

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.

  Lucian Freud

  Tasks, Purpose, Uncomfortable

  Sebastian Smee, Lucian Freud (2007). “Lucian Freud”, Taschen America Llc

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• When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye…it was very special.

  Thelma Houston

  Running, California, Special

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• In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

  Grace Slick

  Wall, School, People

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