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The job of the artist is always to deepen
the mystery.
+ I don’t think people are born artists;
I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings,
the people you meet, and luck. |
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced
by another language. I don’t know what
to say about what I paint, really. |
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The holy grail is to spend less time making
the picture than it takes people to look at
it. |
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+ ...I paint German artists whom I admire.
I paint their pictures, their work as painters,
and their portraits too. But oddly enough,
each of these portraits ends up as a picture
of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have
never been able to work out why this happens. |
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw. |
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I wished to go completely outside and to make
a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating
the life of humankind within the body of society
and to prepare a positive future in this context. |
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One of the wonderful things about a museum
is how you're jolted into confronting art
from strange and wonderful civilizations and
you look and learn and expand your horizons. |
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My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar
art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale
moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct
entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid
and the average grotesque banality in life. |
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes
all through me. |
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The artist who paints the emotions creates
an enclosed world.. the picture.. which, like
a book, has the same interest no matter where
it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine,
spends a great deal of time doing nothing
but looking, both around him and inside him. |
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Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery
in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you.
Look at my sculptures until you see them.
Those closest to God have seen them. |
| Georges
Braque |
:::
cubist painter :::
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+ Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the
thing you cannot explain. |
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+ The mind which plunges into Surrealism,
relives with burning excitement the best part
of childhood. |
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+ Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens
our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the
limits of conventional wisdom. |
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I believe in working hard. Painting is serious.
A vice, not a play thing. |
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"Famous
quotes about art"
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