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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• 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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• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Men, Perception

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Passion, Alive

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Music, Peace

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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• My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Spiritual, Art, Men

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• Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

  John Singer Sargent

  Funny, Art, Truth

  Quoted in Evan Esar, A Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Love Life, Creativity

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• It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Easy, Difficult, Knowing Oneself

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• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Art, Work

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• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  Caravaggio

  Life, Art, Nature

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• Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, Mind, Painting

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

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Color

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• Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

  Henri Rousseau

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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• Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Design

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• I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

  Frida Kahlo

  Love, Art, Happy Friday

  Hayden Herrera, Frida Kahlo (1992). “Frida Kahlo”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Peace, War, Sea

  1959 In the NewYork Times, 24May.

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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Artist, Famous Artist

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

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• I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Reality, Painting

  Elena Poniatowska, Frida Kahlo, Carla Stellweg (1992). “Frida Kahlo: the camera seduced”, Vintage

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