Painter Quotes - Page 5

• There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

  Winslow Homer

  Art, Work, Way

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• Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

  Robert Motherwell

  Life, Art, Important

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

  Andy Warhol

  Fashion, Style, Reason

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• I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

  Frank Stella

  Life, Art, Giving

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• Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Character, Drawing

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• Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.

  Victor Vasarely

  Color, Painting, Attributes

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• The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.

  Hilma af Klint

  Change, Art, Work

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• Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

  Dorothea Tanning

  Movie, Stars, Eye

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• I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do it. My art can be an instrument for helping people... What a good feeling - that I can do that with my art.

  Romero Britto

  Inspirational, Art, Believe

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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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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• With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

  Leonid Afremov

  Depression, Art, Freedom

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• Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Life, Motivation, Inspiration

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• In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Art, Men, Order

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• We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Eye, Perception, Vision

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• The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

  El Lissitzky

  Art, People, World

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• I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

  Alice Neel

  God, Art, Women

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Success, Believe In Yourself

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• Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, Mind, Painting

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• I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

  Mark Ryden

  Time, Art, Sleep

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• People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

  Mark Ryden

  Art, Real, Ideas

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• I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

  Mark Ryden

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

  "Art Space Talk: Mark Ryden". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. December 4, 2006.

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