Popular Quotes
“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”
-Roy Lichtenstein |
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
-Pablo Picasso |
“A man paints with his brain and not with his hands.”
-Michelangelo |
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
-Auguste Rodin |
“Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.”
-Chuck Close |
"I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it."
-Keith Haring |
"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
-Marilyn Monroe |
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"I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
-Georgia O'Keeffe |
“Be thankful for the bad things in life. For they opened your eyes to the good things you weren’t paying attention to before.”
-Kermit the Frog |
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“No man with a conscience can just bat out illustration. He’s got to pull all his talent and feeling into them.”
-Norman Rockwell |
“Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognize what I am and what I want."
-Gustav Klimt |
“I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Things are happening."
-Joan Rivers |
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
-Woody Allen |
“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.”
-David Hockney |
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"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
-Vincent Van Gogh |
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
-Jackson Pollock |
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
-Edward Degas |
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
-Alberto Giacometti |
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
-Edgar Degas |
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“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
-John F. Kennedy |
"One eye sees, the other feels."
-Paul Klee |
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"For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make."
-Marina Abramovic |
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"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”
-Bruce Lee |
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-Stevie Wonder |
"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it."
-Denzel Washington |
"The days you work are the best days."
-Georgia O'Keeffe |
"Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it."
-Salvadore Dali |
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
-Thomas A. Edison |
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
Leonardo da Vinci |
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
-Jackson Pollock |
"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
-Helmut Newton |
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“If I didn’t think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn’t go on doing it.
-Claes Oldenburg |
“No one’s just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.”
-Jane Lynch |
“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.”
-J. Paul Getty |
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
-Pablo Picasso |
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
-Aristotle |
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"A good head and a good heart are always
a formidable combination." -Nelson Mandela |
"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
-Diane Arbus |
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
-Steve Jobs |
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-Maya Angelou |
"The only failure is not to try."
-George Clooney |
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