Famous quotes by Artists

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"I have wasted my hours"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience, it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is, to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Water is the driving force of all nature"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Men of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed, and the first of that which comes; so with present time"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad"

Salvador Dali, Artist

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

Salvador Dali, Artist

"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come"

Max Cannon, Artist

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

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