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• All artists are vain, they long to be recognised and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
  Francis Bacon Quotes - Artists
• The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
  Willem de Kooning Quotes - Artists
• 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.
  Marlene Dumas Quotes - Woman Artists - Artists
• To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
  Mahatma Gandhi Quotes - Motivational
• As an artist you’re looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I’m striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they’ve swallowed a f***ing dictionary.
  Damien Hirst Quotes - British Artists
• On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.
  Robert Hughes Quotes - Art Critics
• 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
• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
  Henri Matisse Quotes - Artists
• Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - Spanish Artists
  
• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes - influenced - Spanish Artists
• Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.
  Charles Saatchi Quotes - Art Collectors
• Picasso was not only a great artist, he was a good businessman. He knew the value of his work, and he didn’t make excuses for it.
  Donald Trump Quotes - comments - Business People
• I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that. But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no. I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes - Artists
• Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - American Artists
• Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.
  Andy Warhol Quotes - Artists
• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
  Oscar Wilde Quotes - Novelists - Poets