Painter Quotes - Page 6

• The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

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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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• The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Men, Sea

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1171, Delphi Classics

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• I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

  Andy Warhol

  Happiness, Happy, Lasts

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

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Success, Believe In Yourself

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• Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Friendship, Real, Intelligent

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

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• The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

  El Lissitzky

  Art, People, World

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• The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Perception, Painting, Should

  Charles Sala, Caspar David Friedrich (1994). “Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting”, Vilo International

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

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Understanding, Painting

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

  Franz Kline

  Life, Art, Order

  Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Art, Eye, Feelings

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• 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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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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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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• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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  Action is the foundational key to all success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Thankful, Atheist, Worst Moments

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