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"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Life, Heart, Strength, Difficulties

37

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Time, Understanding

37

"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick."

"Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick."

Robert Indiana, American Artist

37

"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man."

"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Education, Knowledge, History, Exploration, Learning

37

"Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future."

"Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future."

H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist

People, Ideas, Future, Reality

37

"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together."

"My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together."

Kurt Schwitters, German Artist

37

"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others."

"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Effort, Saying, Will

37

"I would kiss you, had I the courage."

"I would kiss you, had I the courage."

Edouard Manet, French Artist

Love, Kiss, Courage

37

"Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!"

"Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!"

Jaime Hernandez, American Artist

Car, Time, Life, Research

37

"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."

"All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

37

"One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much."

"One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much."

Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

Movies, Problems, World

37

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create."

"I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create."

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Creativity, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

37

"Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague."

"Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague."

Max Cannon, American Artist

Politics, Culture, Events

37

"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that."

"I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that."

Matthew Barney, American Artist

Thought, Desire, Hunger, Project

37

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Art, Land, Want

37

"I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years."

"I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years."

Terri Windling, American Artist

Experience, England, Living, Years

37

"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

Robert Indiana, American Artist

Houses, Mind, Numbers, Old

37

"In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest."

"In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest."

Terri Windling, American Artist

Folklore, Land, Now, Years

36

"Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart."

"Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart."

Kevyn Aucoin, American Artist

Life, Heart, Ugly, Will

36

"You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas."

"You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas."

Sol LeWitt, American Artist

Creativity, Ideas

36

"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."

"I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting."

Jackson Pollock, American Artist

36

"Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form."

"Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

36

"Artists are going to be the metronome of this society."

"Artists are going to be the metronome of this society."

Yoko Ono, American Artist

Society, Artists

36

"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."

"When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart."

Camille Pissarro, French Artist

36

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."

"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."

Franz Marc, German Artist

Life, Art, Truth, Dream

36

"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"

"I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!"

Robert Crumb, American Artist

Expression, Bizarre, Blame, Entertainment

36

"There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer."

"There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

36

"Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy."

"Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy."

Beatrice Wood, American Artist

36

"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."

"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

Thought, Nothing

36

"I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it."

"I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it."

Dennis Muren, American Artist

36

"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."

"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."

Edward Hopper, American Artist

36

"People try constantly to use me, and I hate it."

"People try constantly to use me, and I hate it."

Tracey Emin, English Artist

36

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."

Helen Frankenthaler, American Artist

Art, Invention, Rules

36

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

Nature, Language, Painting

36

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves."

Gustave Courbet, French Artist

Man, Men, Character, Worth

36

"Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances."

"Killing yourself is a major commitment, it takes a kind of courage. Most people just lead lives of cowardly desperation. It's kinda half suicide where you just dull yourself with substances."

Robert Crumb, American Artist

People, Courage, Commitment, Desperation

36

"All ideas grow out of other ideas."

"All ideas grow out of other ideas."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

Creativity, Ideas

36

"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."

"I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since."

Boyd Rice, American Artist

Old, Philosophy, Years

36

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

36

"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."

"It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

Time, Emotion, Now, Thinking

36

"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."

"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be."

Don Van Vliet, American Artist

Animals, Kindness

36

"Art is eternal, but life is short."

"Art is eternal, but life is short."

Evelyn de Morgan, English Artist

36

"The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked."

"The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked."

Craig McCracken, American Artist

Art, First, Reason

36

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

36

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."

Michelangelo, Italian Artist

36

"The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions."

"The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions."

Paul Signac, French Artist

Fight, Individuality, Will

36

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."

Marcel Duchamp, French Artist

36

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Friendship, Love, Money, People, Friend

36

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

Andy Warhol, American Artist

Humor, Employees, Tax

36

"Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others."

"Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others."

James De La Vega, American Artist

Confidence, Trying

36

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