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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.
  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Quotes - Artists
• 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 Quotes - Artists
• I now have a strong reaction against the exposed female body. Nudes will no longer be a subject for me.. though I might regret saying that the next time I see a beautiful girl on the beach.
  Helmut Newton Quotes - Photographers
• I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.
  Robert Rauschenberg Quotes - Artists
• How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
  Gerhard Richter Quotes - Artists
• I felt a tremendous affinity with Van Goghs deep feeling for the things he painted and how he exaggerated the colors of sky, chairs, faces, to bring them to almost more than life.
  Susan Rothenberg Quotes - Female Artists - Artists
• I paint anybody, anybody that asks me.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
• A lady friend of mine asked me,
  "Well, what do you love most?"
  That's how I started painting money.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - subject matter - American Artists
• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
  Oscar Wilde Quotes - Novelists - Poets