"The artist must paint as he would speak.……" — David Alfaro Siqueiros
"The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand."
More Artist Quotes
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- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
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- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
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