Painter Quotes - Page 5

• I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

  Alice Neel

  God, Art, Women

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Success, Believe In Yourself

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• I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

  Frank Stella

  Life, Art, Giving

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• True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

  Leonid Afremov

  Depression, Art, Freedom

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• I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

  Mark Ryden

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

  "Art Space Talk: Mark Ryden". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. December 4, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Men, Order

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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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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• With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Real, Ideas

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• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Character, Drawing

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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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• Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Movie, Stars, Eye

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• I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art.

  Romero Britto

  Inspirational, Art, Believe

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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• Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

  Judy Chicago

  Morning, Women, Long

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