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Quotes by Artist
"I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful."
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"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
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"In would rather die of passion than of boredom."
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"Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets " neither of us have any."
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"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
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"What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do."
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"No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger."
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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."
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"It has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting."
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"I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men."
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"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."
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"Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live."
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"On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds."
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"He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always."
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"These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are."
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"Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'."
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"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
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"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature."
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"So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way."
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"Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object."
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"All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more."
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"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand."
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"Where friendship blooms, life is reborn."
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"In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true."
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
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"When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
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"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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"Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes."
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"Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it."
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"Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life."
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"Photographers along with dentists are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out."
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"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
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"When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it."
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