People will forgive anything but
beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable. --
James
Abbott McNeill Whistler
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid
conforming to my own taste. --
Marcel
Duchamp
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Have no fear of perfection -
you'll never reach it ---
Salvador Dali |
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| All the really good ideas I ever
had came to me while I was milking a cow. -- Grant Wood --
Grant Wood |
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| Every good painter paints what he
is. - Jackson
Pollock |
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Drawing is the basis of art. A
bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. -
Arshile
Gorky
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An art school is a place for
young girls to pass the time between high school and marriage. --
Thomas Hart
Benton
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| Look, it's my misery that I have
to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to
love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty
dollars. --
Mark Rothko |
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| The artist is not a 'Sunday
child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have
the right to live without duty. -
Wassily
Kandinsky |
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| Every picture shows a spot with
which the artist himself has fallen in love. --
Alfred Sisley |
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| Art is either plagiarism or
revolution. --
Paul Gauguin |
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| With an apple I will astonish
Paris. --
Paul Cezanne |
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| A paintings is not completely
finished until the artist has separated the spirit from body . --
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
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| A room hung with pictures is a
room hung with thoughts.--J
oshua Reynolds |
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| Only when he no longer knows what
he is doing does the painter do good things. --
Edgar Degas |
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| Great things are done by a series
of small things brought together.
Georges Seurat |
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| A painting that is well composed
is half finished. --
Pierre
Bonnard |
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| Civilization is what makes you
sick. -- Paul
Gauguin |
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| From my rotting body flowers
shall grow and I in them and that is eternity. --
Edvard Munch |
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| Inspired
intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education. --
Paul
Delaroche |
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| There is only one thing valuable
in art; the thing you cannot explain. --
Georges Braque |
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| While I recognize the necessity
for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that
is felt." --
Odilon Redon |
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| All art critics are useless or
harmful. --
Umberto Boccioni |
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| Unless a picture shocks, it is
nothing. --
Marcel Duchamp |
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“I can't tell you if genius is
hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” --
James
Abbott McNeill Whistler
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