883 private quotes tagged art

“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.” — Henri Matisse

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“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.” — Edgard Varese

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“I think about my work every minute of the day.” — Jeff Koons

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“I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.” — Laurie Anderson

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“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

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

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“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” — Paul Strand

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“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” — Novalis

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“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.” — Gian Carlo Menotti

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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.” — Elia Kazan

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“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.” — Anish Kapoor

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“Painting is by nature a luminous language.” — Robert Delaunay

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“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.” — Robert Delaunay

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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.” — Jean Rostand

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“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.” — Kary Mullis

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“I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.” — Jodie Foster

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“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” — Don Marquis

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“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” — Damien Hirst

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“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” — Agnes Martin

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“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.” — Eugene Delacroix

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“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.” — Joan Miro

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“Trying to force creativity is never good.” — Sarah McLachlan

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