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I wasn't a good student, I wasn't an athlete, and I
think that helped focus me early in my life.
-Chuck Close
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
When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash
about in the bath.-Salvador Dali
What counts most is finding new ways to get
the world down in paint on my own terms.
-Michelangelo
I think about my work every minute of the day.
-Jeff Koons
The job of the artist is always to deepen the
mystery.-Francis Bacon
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.
-Paul Cezanne
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my
painting.
-Georges Baselitz
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think
about life.-Jean Michel Basquiat
Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of
prayer for redemption and resurrection?
-Marc Chagall
I've always thought that problem solving is highly
overrated and that problem creation is far
more interesting.-Chuck Close
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times.
This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the ye; I find them disturbing
and always have to look away.
-Marc Chagall
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
-Leonardo Di Vinci
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would
not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would
allow me to discover the meaning of life.
-Marc Chagall
I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have
to earn my living, and occupy myself.
-Francis Bacon
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not
art.-Paul Cezanne
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty,
but they say I have talent.-Marc Chagall
What counts most is finding new ways to get
the world down in paint on my own terms.
-Georges Baselitz
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought,
mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in
upon my pictures.-Marc Chagall
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave
something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the
same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
-Francis Bacon
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than
not work is salvation.-Chuck Close
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life
in the artist.-Edward Hopper
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my
own reality.-Frida Kahlo
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the
latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the
limbs.-Leonardo Di Vinci
I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to,
so that they feel open participation.
-Jeff Koons
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no
possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
-Salvador Dali
I think a painter looking at a painting sees the image, but they also see how the image was constructed.
-Chuck Close
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I
paint whatever passes through my head without any other
consideration.-Frida Kahlo
You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for
creativity.-Salvador Dali
If I could say it in words there would be no reason
to paint.-Edward Hopper
People love mystery, and that is why they love my
paintings.-Salvador Dali
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes
all through me.
-William Blake
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
-Paul Gauguin
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong
sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
-Philip Guston
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce
nothing.-Salvador Dali
No amount of skillful invention can replace the
essential element of imagination.
-Edward Hopper
I paint self-portraits because I am so often
alone, because I am the person I know best.
-Frida Kahlo
An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier
than certain pictures.-Wassily Kandinsky
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