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Famous quotes by Artists

"Learning never exhausts the mind"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
Leonardo da Vinci
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"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing"
John Dyer, Artist
John Dyer
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"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one"
John Dyer, Artist
John Dyer
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"My optimism for life carried through my work"
John Dyer, Artist
John Dyer
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"The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea"
John Dyer, Artist
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"Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire"
John Dyer, Artist
John Dyer
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"I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour"
John Dyer, Artist
John Dyer
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"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"
Salvador Dali, Artist
Salvador Dali
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"People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that"
Max Cannon, Artist
Max Cannon
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"The best way to know God is to love many things"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
Vincent Van Gogh
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"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
Vincent Van Gogh
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"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
Vincent Van Gogh
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"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights"
Giotto di Bondone, Artist
Giotto di Bondone
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"Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover"
Giotto di Bondone, Artist
Giotto di Bondone
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"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art, a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of C# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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"Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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"Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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"Art matters"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution"
Paul Cezanne, Artist
Paul Cezanne
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"Be drawn to the visual arts, for it can expand your imagination"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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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
Michelangelo
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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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"Everything I do is the environment"
Arthur Boyd, Artist
Arthur Boyd
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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
Rene Magritte
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"Healing yourself is connected with healing others"
Yoko Ono, Artist
Yoko Ono
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"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer"
Andy Goldsworthy, Artist
Andy Goldsworthy
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"I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world"
Robert Rauschenberg, Artist
Robert Rauschenberg
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"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"
Andy Warhol, Artist
Andy Warhol
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"Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life"
Ralph Ransom, Artist
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"I shut my eyes in order to see"
Paul Gauguin, Artist
Paul Gauguin
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