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When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash
about in the bath.
+ One day it will have to be officially admitted
that what we have christened reality is an
even greater illusion than the world of dreams. |
| Jacques-Louis
David |
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+ To give body and perfect form to your thought,
this alone is what it is to be an artist.
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery
than mastery of oneself.
+ Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his
master. |
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+ I get to do something I love to do for a
living and I don't have to do anything else,
which is great. |
| Giorgio
de Chirico |
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+ To become truly immortal, a work of art
must escape all human limits: logic and common
sense will only interfere. But once these
barriers are broken, it will enter the realms
of childhood visions and dreams. |
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I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.
And I had no other ambition than to discover
with the help of new means those deep inner
ties that linked me to the very soil. |
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+ Everyone has talent at 25. The difficulty
is to have it at 50. |
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+ In art, one idea is as good as another.
If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance,
all of a sudden most art starts to tremble.
Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts
to tremble. All the Impressionists start to
tremble.
+ Whatever an artist’s personal feelings
are, as soon as an artist fills a certain
area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he
becomes historical. He acts from or upon other
artists. |
| Eugene
Delacroix |
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+ What moves men of genius, or rather
what inspires their work, is not new ideas,
but their obsession with the idea that what
has already been said is still not enough. |
| Henri
de Toulouse Lautrec |
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+ In our time there are many artists who do
something because it is new; they see their
value and their justification in this newness.
They are deceiving themselves; novelty is
seldom the essential. This has to do with
one thing only; making a subject better from
its intrinsic nature. |
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In a successful painting everything is integral..
all the parts belong to the whole. If you
remove an aspect or element you are removing
its wholeness. |
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+ My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily
about drawing. It's about making the best
kind of image I can make, it's about talking
as clearly as I can. |
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It's all the same to me. I must keep the first
impression fresh. If it is lost, I must find
it again. |
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A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful
attempt to put on to canvas what is in front
of him, but one who tries to create something
which is, in itself, a living thing. |
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I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts. |
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Art shouldn't be something that you go quietly
into an art gallery and dip your forelock
and say 'I have to be very quiet, I'm in here
amongst the art.' It's here, art's everywhere.
It's how you use your eyes. It's about the
enjoyment of visual things. And it's certainly
not for any one group of people. |
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What I expect from any work of art is that
it surprises me, that it violates my customary
valuations of things and offers me other,
unexpected ones. |
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I have forced myself to contradict myself
in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. |
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What a funny thing painting is. The abstract
painters always insist on their connection
with the visible reality, while the so called
figurative artists insist that what they really
care about, is the abstract qualities of life. |
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