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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.: Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993)
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
I paint my own reality. 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 (1907 - 1954)
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
What I dream of is an art of balance.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.: Isak Dineson, 'Babette's Feast'
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.: Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.: Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-11-2006
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.: John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
What we play is life.: Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.: M. C. Richards
Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.: Michele Shea
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.: Nickolas Muray
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

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