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  • Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

    Art   Pain   Book  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

    Art   Flower   Rose  
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
  • An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

    Art   Abandon   Artist  
  • All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

    FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 22, 2009
  • It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

    Art   Jobs   Mistake  
    Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press
  • An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

    Art   Business   Thinking  
    Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (1975) ch. 10
  • No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

    Quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (1964)
  • No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

    Art   Business   Acting  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS
  • Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

  • A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America
  • The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

    Life   Beautiful   Art  
    Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press
  • An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

    Art   War   People  
    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

    Art   Sacrifice   Self  
    The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
  • Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

    Art   Lying   Long  
    Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"
  • A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

    Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc
  • Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  • To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

    Inspiring   Art   Men  
  • Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

    Life   Music   Crush  
    Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage
  • An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

    Dream   Art   Design  
    Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
  • A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America
  • 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.

    Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation
  • Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

    Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69
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