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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
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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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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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