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Famous quotes by Artists

"Who sows virtue reaps honor"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
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"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
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"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art"
Josef Albers, Artist
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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do"
Edgar Degas, Artist
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"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up"
Mary Cassatt, Artist
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"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
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"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning"
Giotto di Bondone, Artist
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"I shut my eyes in order to see"
Paul Gauguin, Artist
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"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming"
Emily Carr, Artist
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"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy"
Ralph Ransom, Artist
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"Filmmaking can be a fine art"
Terri Windling, Artist
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"If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait"
Diego Rivera, Artist
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"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents"
Salvador Dali, Artist
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"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Michelangelo, Artist
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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all"
Michelangelo, Artist
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"Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one"
Bridget Riley, Artist
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint"
Edward Hopper, Artist
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"I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity"
Barbara Kruger, Artist
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"The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time"
Frank Miller, Artist
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"We all know that art is not truth. Art is lie that makes us realise truth"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"We don't grow older, we grow riper"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings"
Salvador Dali, Artist
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"There are always flowers for those who want to see them"
Henri Matisse, Artist
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"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things"
Henri Matisse, Artist
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