QUOTES - 2
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What is life, but a series of inspired follies? -- George Bernard Shaw |
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The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. -- Arthur Rimbaud |
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
-- Jeff Koons |
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Happiness is an angel with a serious face. -- Amedeo Modigliani |
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One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. -- Salvidor Dali |
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place. -- Jeff Koons |
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. -- Max Eastman |
I see your life as already artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.
-- Toni Morrison |
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Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. -- Gregory McDonald |
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I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. -- Vincent van Gogh |
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Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. -- Marc Chagall |
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. -- Francis Bacon |
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I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension. -- Marc Chagall |
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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 Harring |
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. -- Pierre Auguste Renoir |
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What I am looking for.. is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term "mute music". -- Joan Miro |
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing.. they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
-- Rene Margritte |
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I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so. -- Henri Matisse |
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When I was a young boy, they called me a liar. Now that I'm all grown up, they call me a writer. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer |
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Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. -- Tom Stoppard |
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To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. -- Georgia OKeeffe |
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -- Anatole France |
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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. -- Robert Motherwell |
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The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point. -- Mark Rothko |
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