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Famous quotes by Artists

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist"
David Hockney, Artist
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"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark"
Michelangelo, Artist
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"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him"
Michelangelo, Artist
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"Civilization is what makes you sick"
Paul Gauguin, Artist
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"Every drop in the ocean counts"
Yoko Ono, Artist
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"The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican"
Trey Parker, Artist
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"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them"
Franz Marc, Artist
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"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough"
M. C. Escher, Artist
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"When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own"
Jackson Pollock, Artist
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"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road"
Beatrice Wood, Artist
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"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing"
Salvador Dali, Artist
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"
Salvador Dali, Artist
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"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
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"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution"
Paul Gauguin, Artist
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"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite"
Paul Gauguin, Artist
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"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see"
Rene Magritte, Artist
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"Healing yourself is connected with healing others"
Yoko Ono, Artist
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"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one"
Ralph Ransom, Artist
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"Our work is a scream of freedom"
Christo, Artist
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"One thing that success has taught me is censorship"
Tracey Emin, Artist
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"Animation had been done before, but stories were never told"
Marc Davis, Artist
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"A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth"
John Singer Sargent, Artist
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"Art will never be able to exist without nature"
Pierre Bonnard, Artist
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"I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work"
Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist
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"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good"
Jerry West, Artist
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"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
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