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Andrew Wyeth I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure... Andy Warhol I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it los... Andy Warhol Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into sla... Andy Warhol Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just... Andy Warhol Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen ... Andy Warhol Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them... Andy Warhol I like boring things.... Andy Warhol I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that ... Andy Warhol It's the movies that have really been running things in Am... Andy Warhol Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.... Andy Warhol I am a deeply superficial person.... Andy Warhol An artist is someone who produces things that people don't... Claude Monet I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.... David Hockney Anything simple always interests me.... David Hockney The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you'... Edgar Degas Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficu... Edvard Munch From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them ... Eugene Delacroix The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves i... Georgia O'Keeffe I found I could say things with color and shapes that I co... Georgia O'Keeffe I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scal... Georgia O'Keeffe Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - ... Georgia O'Keeffe It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that... Henri Matisse Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When t... Henri Matisse I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between ... Henri Matisse There are always flowers for those who want to see them.... Henri Matisse You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. ... Henri Matisse A picture must possess a real power to generate light and ... Henri Matisse Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.... Henri Matisse I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works... Henri Matisse Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the adva... Henri Matisse It is only after years of preparation that the young artis... Henri Matisse I have been no more than a medium, as it were.... Henri Matisse What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and sereni... James Whistler I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven h... Jaron Lanier I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is ... Jaron Lanier Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and... Jenny Holzer The most profound things are inexpressible.... Leonardo da Vinci Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautif... Leonardo da Vinci While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have be... Leonardo da Vinci Although nature commences with reason and ends in experien... Marc Chagall When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object... Marc Chagall Great art picks up where nature ends.... Marc Chagall I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two ar... Marc Chagall The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awak... M. C. Escher Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?... M. C. Escher Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossi... M. C. Escher I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.... M. C. Escher We adore chaos because we love to produce order.... Michelangelo A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.... Michelangelo The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfect... Michelangelo Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.... Michelangelo I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him f... Odilon Redon While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed re... Pablo Picasso The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from... Pablo Picasso Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others... Pablo Picasso Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.... Pablo Picasso The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off o... Pablo Picasso It takes a long time to become young.... Pablo Picasso Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.... Pablo Picasso Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an ... Pablo Picasso I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.... Pablo Picasso Action is the foundational key to all success.... Pablo Picasso It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.... Pablo Picasso My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will beco... Pablo Picasso Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.... Pablo Picasso Give me a museum and I'll fill it.... Pablo Picasso We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes... Paul Cezanne When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a ... Paul Gauguin In art, all who have done something other than their prede... Paul Gauguin It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchan... Paul Gauguin Art is either plagiarism or revolution.... Paul Gauguin There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In ev... Paul Gauguin The history of modern art is also the history of the progr... Roy Lichtenstein I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more... Roy Lichtenstein I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.... Salvador Dali Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.... Salvador Dali The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the m... Salvador Dali There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an ... Salvador Dali Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility... Salvador Dali Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.... Salvador Dali Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about ... Vincent Van Gogh If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," the... Vincent Van Gogh When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - re... William Blake It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.... William Blake The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.... William Blake The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness....

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