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For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much…
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In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
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Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he…
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Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends…
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Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,…
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In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the…
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Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
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The main thing is not to be dead.
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Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation
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To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.
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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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