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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I…
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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
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Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and…
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…
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Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…
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Art is the highest form of hope.
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My paintings are wiser than I am.
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To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable…
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I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…
— Paul Cezanne
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Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.
— Unknown Author
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How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.
— Gerhard Richter
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You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
— Otto Dix
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It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.
— Georges Braque
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Every picture one paints involves not painting others.
— Robert Motherwell
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
— Ellen Key
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well…
— Mark Rothko
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the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to…
— Pablo Picasso
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As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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