Artistic Quotes - Page 2

• It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Artist, Expression

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

  Paracelsus

  Dream, Sleep, Artist

  Paracelsus, George Rosen, Henry Ernest Sigerist, Clarice Lilian Temkin, Gregory Zilboorg (1941). “Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings”

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• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Success, God

  Quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (1964)

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• First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Narrators

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• I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Doing Me

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• My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Artistic Life, Interfere, Personal Life

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

  Donald Trump

  Love, Success, Beautiful

  Ken Lawrence, Donald Trump (2005). “The World According to Trump: An Unauthorized Portrait in His Own Words”, p.113, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

  Edmund Wilson

  Imagination, Vision, Relation

  Edmund Wilson (1977). “Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972”

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• A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Winning, Chess, Horror

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• A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Mean, Feelings, Able

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• That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Tasks, Solutions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

  Alan Shepard

  Math, Science, Thinking

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• I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Apples, Creative

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• The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

  Noto

  Creativity, Matter, Logic

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• The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

  Plato

  Art, Mean, Men

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  Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

  Tim Burton

  Children, Ambition, Always Trying

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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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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandon, Artist

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• Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Music, Creativity

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Self, Space

  ART-news, 56. no. 4, 1957.

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• Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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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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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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