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  • Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.

    Art   Confusion   Purpose  
  • If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

    Art   Creative   Would Be  
    Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated
  • One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

    Courage   Art   Capacity  
  • Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

    Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”
  • If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  • Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

    Life   Beauty   Beautiful  
  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

    Art   Truth   Lying  
    The Arts, May 1923
  • Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail.

    Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.
  • When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  • Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

    Life   Beautiful   Art  
    Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE
  • Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

    Art   Hate   Creativity  
    Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol (2003). “Warhol Memoir”
  • To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

    Art   Practice   Soul  
    "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.
  • We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

    "The Middle Years" (1893)
  • I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

  • Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

    Inspiring   Art   Eye  
    Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”
  • The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

    Funny   Women   Thinking  
    Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).
  • An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

    Art   Abandon   Artist  
  • Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

    Art   Discovery   Self  
    Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr
  • A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.

    Artist   People   Bed  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

    Art   Painting   Painter  
  • 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
  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

    Art   Color   Trying  
    "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.
  • Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

    Art   Relation   Relate  
  • Great art picks up where nature ends.

    Art   Ends   Artist  
  • Art cannot be criticized because every mistake is a new creation

    Art   Mistake   Creation  
  • I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

  • In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

    Art   Self   Experience  
  • With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

    Art   Creativity   Mean  
  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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