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Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.
- Roy Lichtenstein
Art is a half-effaced recollection of a higher state from which we have fallen since the time of Eden.
- Saint Hildegarde
The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad
- Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali
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Art is a way of saying what it means to be alive, and the most salient feature of existence is the unthinkable odds against it. For every way that there is of being here, there are an infinity of ways of not being here. Historical accident snuffs out whole universes with every clock tick. Statistics declare us ridiculous. Thermodynamics prohibits us. Life, by any reasonable measure, is impossible, and my life—this, here, now—infinitely more so. Art is a way of saying, in the face of all that impossibility, just how worth celebrating it is to be able to say anything at all.
- Richard Powers
One might truthfully say that abstract art is stripped bare of other things in order to intensify it, its rhythms, spatial intervals, and color structure. Abstraction is a process of emphasis . . . Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come into existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience — intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.
- Robert Motherwell
There must be something about art… almost all cultures have done art. Its a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
- Piet Mondrian
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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I do not seek. I find.
- Pablo Picasso.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
- Paul Cezanne
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
- Paul Gauguin
The more horrifing the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
- Paul Klee
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
- Paul Klee
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
- Paul Valéry
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Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?
- Pablo Picasso
The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider.
- Mark Rothko
Great designers innovate, good designers emulate.
- Mark Stosberg
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham
Talent and all that are really for the most part just baloney. Any schoolboy with a little aptitude can perhaps draw better than I; but what he lacks in most cases is that tenacious desire to make it reality, that obstinate gnashing of teeth and saying, “Although I know it can’t be done, I want to do it anyway
- Maurits Cornelius Escher
Lord, let me always desire more then I think I can do.
- Michelangelo
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I just feel that I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working.
- Louise Nevelson
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
- Lucian Freud
I don’t want any colour to be noticeable… I don’t want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent… Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
- Lucien Freud
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell … Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
- Lucien Freud
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