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Famous Artists Quotes In August
2003 we displayed 37 famous quotes from well known artists to
the amusement and amazement of many of our customers. The
response was very positive to the extent that a number of
customers requested for the quotes to be e-mailed to them and
one customer went as far as to memorize all of them. Here they
are for all to learn:
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“TO SEE FAR IS ONE THING, GOING THERE IS ANOTHER”
Constantin Brancusi
“GREAT ART PICKS UP WHERE NATURE ENDS”
Marc Chagall
“HAVE NO FEAR OF PERFECTION, YOU’LL NEVER REACH IT”
Salvador Dali
“ART IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE, BUT WHAT YOU MAKE OTHERS SEE”
Edgar Degas
“A GOOD ARTIST HAS LESS TIME THAN IDEAS”
Martin Kippenberger
“POOR IS THE PUPIL WHO DOES NOT SURPASS HIS MASTER”
Leonardo da Vinci
“LIFE OBLIGES ME TO DO SOMETHING, SO I PAINT”
Rene Magritte
“CREATIVITY TAKES COURAGE”
Henri Matisse
“COLOUR IS MY DAY-LONG OBESSION, JOY AND TORMENT”
Claude Monet
“NO LONGER SHALL I PAINT INTERIORS WITH MEN READING AND WOMEN KNITTING. I WILL PAINT LIVING PEOPLE WHO BREATHE AND FEEL AND SUFFER AND LOVE”
Edvard Munch
“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
“THE PAINTING HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN”
Jackson Pollock
“EVERY GOOD PAINTER PAINTS WHAT HE IS”
Jackson Pollock
“I BEGIN WITH AN IDEA AND THEN IT BECOMES SOMETHING ELSE”
Pablo Picasso
“PAINTING IS JUST ANOTHER WAY OF KEEPING A DIARY”
Pablo Picasso
“THERE ARE PAINTERS WHO TRANSFORM THE SUN INTO A YELLOW SPOT, BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHO, THANKS TO THEIR ART AND INTELLIGENCE, TRANSFORM A YELLOW SPOT INTO THE SUN”
Pablo Picasso
“EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST. THE PROBLEM IS HOW TO REMAIN AN ARTIST ONCE HE GROWS UP”
Pablo Picasso
“THE ONLY TIME I FEEL ALIVE IS WHEN I’M PAINTING”
Vincent Van Gogh
“AN ARTIST IS NOT PAID FOR HIS LABOR BUT FOR HIS VISION”
James McNeill Whistler
“ART WASHES FROM THE SOUL, THE DUST OF EVERYDAY LIFE”
Pablo Picasso
“THE JOB OF THE ARTIST IS ALWAYS TO DEEPEN THE MYSTERY”
Francis Bacon
“THERE IS NO MUST IN ART BECAUSE ART IS FREE”
Wassily Kandinsky
“I SHUT MY EYES IN ORDER TO SEE”
Paul Gauguin
“WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS ABOUT SEVEN YEARS OLD, SHE ASKED ME ONE DAY WHAT I DID AT WORK. I TOLD HER I WORKED AT THE COLLEGE – THAT MY JOB WAS TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO DRAW. SHE STARED BACK AT ME INCREDULOUS, AND SAID “YOU MEAN THEY FORGET?”
Howard Ikemoto
“IT HAS BOTHERED ME ALL MY LIFE THAT I DO NOT PAINT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE”
Henri Matisse
“GREAT ART PICKS UP WHERE NATURE ENDS”
Marc Chagall
“ART IS THE MOST INTENSE MODE OF INDIVIDUALISM THE WORLD HAS KNOWN”
Oscar Wilde
“THE ARTIST IS A VOYEUR”
Leonard Rosoman
“IT IS NOT BRIGHT COLORS BUT GOOD DRAWING THAT MAKES A FIGURE BEAUTIFUL”
Titan
“YOU SHOULD GET AWAY FROM THE INTOXICATION OF REAL LIGHT AND DIGEST YOUR IMPRESSION IN THE REDUCED LIGHT OF A ROOM. THEN YOU CAN GET DRUNK ON SUNSHINE AGAIN”
Pierre Auguste Renoir
“DRAWING SKETCHES IS LIKE PLANTING SEEDS IN ORDER TO GET PICTURES LATER”
Vincent Van Gogh
“KEEP YOURSELF FREE FROM FORMULAS”
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
“ONE MAKES USE OF PIGMENTS BUT ONE PAINTS WITH FEELING”
Jean-Baptiste Chardin
“ONE DAY A FEW HAIRS CAME OUT OF MY BRUSH AND GOT STUCK ON THE PICTURE. I THEN PAINTED A BIRD’S NEST”
Pablo Picasso
“FIRST OF ALL RESPECT YOUR PAPER”
JMW Turner
“I MAKE THE BACKGROUND OF MY CANVASES WITH THE GREATEST OF CARE, BECAUSE IT IS THE GROUND THAT SUPPORTS THE REST; IT IS LIKE THE FOUNDATIONS OF A HOUSE”
Georges Braque
“DRAWING IS THE TRUE TEST OF ART”
Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres
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