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Francis Bacon            
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.                        
 

John Cassavetes
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to
express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try
many things -- but above all, we must dare to fail. You must
have the courage to be bad -- to be willing to risk everything
to really express it all.
 

Charlie Chaplin
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

~ Gilbert Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
I hope with all my heart that there will be painting in heaven.

Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
 

DaVinci, Leonardo

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

~ André Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

~ Walter Gropius
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

~ Adolph Hitler
Anybody who paints and sees a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilised.

Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance...and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
 

Roy Lichtenstein
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
 

Rene Magritte
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
 

Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Trifles make perfection – and perfection is no trifle.        Michelangelo, 1475-1564

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. 

Claude Monet
When it is dark, it seems to me as if I were dying, and I can't think any more.
 

 -Louis Nizer, lawyer (1902-1994)
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Pablo Picasso
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks  to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.  (Picasso - end of quotes)

Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. 

~ Kenneth Rexroth
[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Auguste Rodin
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
 

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

George Bernard Shaw
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasques, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of colour, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed: Amen.  Amen.

~ Simonides (6th - 5th Century BC)
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

Irving Stone
Art's a staple.  Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter.  Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind.  Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
 

Tom Stoppard
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

~ Simone Weil
A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

~ Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

~ Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

William Butler Yeats
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Emile Zola
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Art is a form of catharsis. Dorothy Parker.

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