| The position of the artist if humble.
He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
Those who do not want to imitate anything,
produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
The only difference between myself and a
madman is that I am not mad.
Salvador Dali
Art is a half-effaced recollection of a higher
state from which we have fallen since the time of Eden.
Saint Hildegarde
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
Shall I tell you what I think are the two
qualities of a work of art? First, it must be the indescribable,
and second, it must be inimitable.
Pierre Auguste
Renoir
An artist never really finishes his work;
he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather,
it makes visible.
Paul Klee
The more horrifying the world becomes, the
more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee
The more perfect the artist, the more completely
separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind
which creates.
T. S. Eliot
If you want to have a million dollars and
be an artist, start with two.
James Bauerle
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions
which have been hidden by the answers.
James Baldwin
The pictures I contemplate painting would
constitute a halfway state and an attempt to point out the
direction of the future - without arriving there completely.
Jackson Pollock
My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier,
you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up
as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as
Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
I tell you, the more I think, the more I
feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love
people.
Vincent Van Gogh
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