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Art Quotes Published in January 2004
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Art
Quotes for January 26
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The
portrait is one of the most curious
art forms. It demands special qualities
in the artist, and an almost total kinship
with the model..
:: Henri
Matisse ::
Personally, I feel that in my own work
I wanted to look programmed or impersonal
but I don't really believe I am being
impersonal when I do it. And I don't
think you could do this..
:: Roy
Lichtenstein :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 23
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I'm
not really sure what social message
my art carries, if any. And I don't
really want it to carry one. I'm not
interested in the subject matter to
try to teach society anything, or to
try to better our world in any way.
:: Roy
Lichtenstein ::
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol,
just look at the surface of my paintings
and films and me, there I am. There's
nothing behind it.
:: Andy
Warhol :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 21
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I must see new things and investigate
them. I want to taste dark water and
see crackling trees and wild winds..
:: Egon
Schiele ::
To restrict the artist is a crime. It
is to murder germinating life..
:: Egon
Schiele :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 19
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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 ::
If painting came easily, if the answers,
the solutions, were obvious, I'd find
another occupation.
::: Karen
Jacobs ::: |
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Art
Quotes for January 16
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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..
:: Willem
De Kooning ::
I have no knowledge of myself as I am,
but merely as I appear to myself..
:: Immanuel
Kant :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 14
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I
know the price of success: dedication,
hard work and an unremitting devotion
to the things you want to see happen..
:: Frank
Lloyd Wright ::
Customers want brands that are narrow
in scope and distinguishable by a single
word, the shorter the better..
:: Al
Ries :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 12
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I
myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes
all through me..
:: William
Blake ::
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..
:: Giorgio
de Chirico :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 9
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Happiness
is an angel with a serious face..
:: Amedeo
Modigliani ::
What I am seeking is not the real
and not the unreal but rather the unconscious,
the mystery of the instinctive in the
human race..
:: Amedeo
Modigliani :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 7
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If
there is something to steal, I steal
it!..
:: Pablo
Picasso ::
Picasso had his pink period and his
blue period. I am in my blonde period
right now..
:: Hugh
Hefner :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 5
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A
likely impossibility is always preferable
to an unconvincing possibility..
:: Aristotle
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I don't hate you for failing, I
love you for trying..
:: Marge
Simpson :: |
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Art
Quotes for January 2
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Before
I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous
feeling: happiness is a special excitement
because unhappiness is always possible
a moment later..
::: Francis
Bacon :::
My painting is not violent; it’s
life that is violent..
::: Francis
Bacon ::: |
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