Fine Artists Quotes

• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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  A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Pain, Inspiration

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1913). “Michelangelo: A Record of His Life as Told in His Own Letters and Papers”

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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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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Art, Moving, Ideas

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• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Experience, Painting

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

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Paint, Cubism

  Pablo Picasso (2001). “Picasso érotique”, Prestel Pub

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Paint, Artist

  Jackson Pollock, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1980). “Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting”, Icon

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• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Hands

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

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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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• 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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• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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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 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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• No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Aquariums, Imagination

  Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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• I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Emotional, Feelings

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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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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