Art Quotes

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The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an… — Hans Hofmann
I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch
They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green,… — Pablo Picasso
To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are… — Louise Bourgeois
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result… — Richard Diebenkorn
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line… — Piet Mondrian
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. — Mary Daly
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it. — Paul Cezanne
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because… — Georgia O'Keeffe
The secret of life is in art. — Oscar Wilde
Art is the path of the creator to his work. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… — Paul Cezanne
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or… — Gustave Courbet
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I… — Henri Matisse
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my… — Joan Miro
So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into… — Georgia O'Keeffe

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