Famous Artist Quotes - Page 3

• The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  Michelangelo

  Christian, Art, Shadow Work

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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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• Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Art, Confusion, Purpose

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• To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Things In Life, Creating

  "Luncheon of the Boating Party‎". Book by Susan Vreeland, 2007.

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "The Middle Years" (1893)

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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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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• There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Inspirational, Art, Breaking Rules

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• You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without building it

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  Life, Cutting, Reality

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• Truth exists; only lies are invented.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Truth, Lying

  Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20

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• Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

  Mr. Brainwash

  Art, Mistake, Creation

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• I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

  Yue Minjun

  Meaningful, Cynical, Chinese

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• Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

  Judy Chicago

  Morning, Women, Long

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• Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level.

  Michelangelo Pistoletto

  Art, Museums, People

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• My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

  Ana Mendieta

  Art, Ties, Way

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Art, Relation, Relate

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

  Banksy

  Negativity, Negative People, Graffiti

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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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• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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