Painter Quotes - Page 6

• The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

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• When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

  Romare Bearden

  Time, Memories, Artist

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• With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Creativity, Mean

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• Blood is very powerful. While meat is the substance that keeps our living souls in this physical reality, blood keeps our meat alive. Blood is liquid life. When blood escapes our bodies we are alarmed to the very core of our brains. It is life leaking out of us. It is frightening and makes red a profoundly intense color.

  Mark Ryden

  Life, Powerful, Reality

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Love, Life, Death

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Book, Shoes

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• 'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Laughter, Humor

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• The world is filled to suffocating. Man has placed his token on every stone. Every word, every image, is leased and mortgaged. We know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash.

  Sherrie Levine

  Photography, Art, Men

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• The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Perception, Painting, Should

  Charles Sala, Caspar David Friedrich (1994). “Caspar David Friedrich and Romantic Painting”, Vilo International

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• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Understanding, Painting

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

  Franz Kline

  Life, Art, Order

  Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc

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• Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Art, Eye, Feelings

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Believe, Belief

  "Marcel Duchamp: a riotous A-Z of his secret life" by Thomas Girst, www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2014.

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• I shut my eyes in order to see.

  Paul Gauguin

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Good Night, Art

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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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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