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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
"Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."
"From its brilliancy everything is illuminated."
"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
"Art is anything people do with distinction."
"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."
"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
"I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form."
"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."
"To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way."
"To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity."
"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."
"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."
"Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization."
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."
"O, had I but followed the arts!"
"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."
"What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart."
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
"I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed."
"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue."
"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art."
"There is nothing new in art except talent."
"I look at everything in an artistic way."
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."
"Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn."
"The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools."
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
"I like to draw and paint. It is a river to me."
"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
"I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body."
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."
"I don't believe in art. I believe in artists."
"There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing."
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."
"I paint with shapes."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
"Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm."
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
"The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing."
"I think about my work every minute of the day."
"Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is."
"I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff."
"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."
"It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception."
"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."
"There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it."
"I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework."
"Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love."
"Life obliges me to do something, so I paint."
"Filmmaking can be a fine art."
"If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer."
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
"A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form."
"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."
"People aren't interested in seeing themselves as they really are."
"Believe it or not, I can actually draw."
"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
"A picture is a poem without words."
"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"Well begun is half done."
"A great artist is a great man in a great child."
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."
"Things are beautiful if you love them."
"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
"Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."
"If you wish to be a writer, write."
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
"The great artist is a slave to his ideals."
"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds."
"Life is short, the art long."
"The best artists know what to leave out."
"Layer by layer art strips life bare."
"There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning."
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."
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