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Quotes by Artist
"Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist."
Art,
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"Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist."
20
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
19
"Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials."
19
"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum."
19
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
19
"Becoming a father isn't difficult, but it's very difficult to be a father."
19
"I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising."
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"Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet."
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"Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts."
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"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."
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"What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing."
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"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can."
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"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!"
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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."
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"Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
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"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"He who thinks little errs much."
18
"Every time that we've ever fought, we fought to keep from bein' destroyed. We've never started a war."
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"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
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"It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide."
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"It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis."
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"When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill."
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"Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno."
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"When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine."
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"The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business."
18
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
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"I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950."
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"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature."
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"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."
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