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- Art is the highest form of hope.
~ Gerhard Richter
- Rubens created the most intense symphonies of color.
~ Teodor de Wyzewa
- A lady friend of mine asked me, "well what do you love most?" That's how I started painting money.
~ Andy Warhol
- I never paint dreams I paint my own reality.
~ Frida Kahlo
- To be an artist is to believe in life.
~ Henry Moore
- Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye…it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
~ Edvard Munch
- What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
~ Henri Matisse
- An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
~ James McNeil Whistler
- Every good painter paints what he is.
~ Jackson Pollock
- So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big and they will be so surprised into taking the time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take the time to see what I see of flowers.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
- Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
~ Rembrandt
- His (Titian's) paintings cannot be viewed from nearby but appear perfect at a distance... this makes pictures appear alive and painted with great art, but conceals the labor that has gone into them.
~ Georgio Vasari
- I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my paintings, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.
~ Marc Chagall
- We never know what stupidity is until we have experimented with ourselves.
~ Paul Gauguin
- The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
~ Piet Mondrian
- He (Vincent) has painted portraits, which have turned out well, but he always does them for no payment. It is a pity that he does not want to earn something, for if he did want to he could make something here, but you can't change a person.
~ Theo van Gogh
- One can have no greater mastery than the mastery of oneself.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
- The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
~ Francis Bacon
- It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
~ Berthe Morisot
- For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
~ Georges Rouault
- Nature creates him as a gift to the world: After having been vanquished by the art in the work of Michelangelo Buonarroti, it wished to be vanquished by Raphael by both art and moral habits as will.
~ Georgio Vasari
- Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
~ Georges Braque
- The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and ironically, the more real.
~ Michelangelo
- One wants to do this thing of just walking along the precipice, and in Velázquez it's a very, very extraordinary thing that he has been able to keep it so near to what we call illustration and at the same time so deeply unlock the greatest and deepest things that man can feel.
~ Francis Bacon
- An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
- You come to nature with theories, and she knocks them all down flat.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
~ John Singer Sargent
- The only time I feel alive is when I am painting. The emotions are so strong sometimes that I work without knowing it. The strokes come to me like speech.
~ Vincent van Gogh
- People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
~ Salvador Dalí
- When I see the Biotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble myself to recognize which of the life of Christ I have before me, but I immediately understand the sentiment which emerges from it, for it is the lines, the composition, the color.
~ Henri Matisse
- Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in the gap between the two.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
- I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
~ William Blake
- Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
~ Francisco Goya
- What moves men to genius, or rather inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
~ Eugène Delacroix
- To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist.
~ Jacques-Louis David
- A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artists world.
~ Hans Hoffman
- The mind, which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
~ Andrea Breton
- An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
~ James McNeill Whistler
- I tend to like things that already exist.
~ Jasper Johns
- It would appear that my obsession for representing things only in a rudimentary and uncertain manner forces the imagination of the viewer to function more vigorously than it would if the objects were more precisely represented.
~ Jean Dubuffet
- The Lourve is the book in which we learn to read.
~ Paul Cézanne
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