GREAT QUOTES OF PAUL GAUGUIN

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF PAUL GAUGUIN

“I shut my eyes in order to see.” - Paul Gauguin

“Art is either revolution or plagiarism” - Paul Gauguin

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.” - Paul Gauguin

“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.” - Paul Gauguin

“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.” - Paul Gauguin

“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.” - Paul Gauguin

“It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.” - Paul Gauguin

“How do you see this tree? Is it green?

...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible.” - Paul Gauguin

“Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.” - Paul Gauguin

“All the joys animal and human of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.” - Paul Gauguin,

GREAT QUOTES OF EDGAR DEGAS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF EDGAR DEGAS

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.” - Edgar Degas

“I want to be famous but unknown!” - Edgar Degas

“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.” - Edgar Degas

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people” - Edgar Degas

“Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.” - Edgar Degas

“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” - Edgar Degas

“So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.” - Edgar Degas

“We were created to look at one another, weren't we” - Edgar Degas

“C'est vrai. Voilá quelqu'un qui sent comme moi. (It is true. There is someone who feels as I do).” - Edgar Degas

“Success! Success! The enemy of progress!” - Edgar Degas

GREAT QUOTES OF SALVODAR DALI

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF SALVODAR DALI

“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” - Salvador Dali

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.” - Salvador Dali

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” - Salvador Dali

“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?” - Salvador Dalí

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” - Salvador Dali

“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.” - Salvador Dalí

“An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.” - Salvador Dali

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” - Salvador Dali

“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.

However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"

Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.” - Salvador Dalí

“The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad!” - Salvador Dali

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.” - Salvador Dalí

GREAT QUOTES OF PABLO PICASSO

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF PABLO PICASSO

“Everything you can imagine is real.” - Pablo Picasso

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” - Pablo Picasso

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” - Pablo Picasso

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” - Pablo Picasso

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” - Pablo Picasso

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” - Pablo Picasso

“When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.” - Pablo Picasso

“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 sun” - Pablo Picasso

GREAT QUOTES OF EDOUARD MANET

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GREAT QUOTES OF EDOUARD MANET

“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. - Edouard Manet

“There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.” - Edouard Manet

“I paint what I see and not what others like to see.” - Édouard Manet

“One does not paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure. One paints an impression of an hour of the day.” - Édouard Manet

GREAT QUOTES OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

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GREAT QUOTES OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” - Vincent Willem van Gogh

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke” - Vincent Van Gogh

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” - Vincent van Gogh

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” - Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.” - Vincent Willem van Gogh

GREAT QUOTES OF PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR

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GREAT QUOTES OF PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” - Pierre Auguste Renoir

“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.” - Pierre Auguste Renoir

“There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.” - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“You come to nature with all your theories, and she knocks them all flat.” - Renoir

GREAT QUOTES OF REMBRANDT

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GREAT QUOTES OF REMBRANDT

**I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

**A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. But his faith is a faith that to him is real, and it is a faith, in my judgement, that sustained him through the hard times in his life.

**Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

**A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god. 

**Choose only one master – Nature. 

**Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

**For in these two paintings the greatest and most natural movement has been expressed, which is also the main reason why they have taken so long to execute.

**Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.

**Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

**Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. A painting is not made to be sniffed.

GREAT QUOTES OF MICHELANGELO

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF MICHELANGELO

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Genius is eternal patience. ” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” - Michelangelo

“Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)” - Michelangelo

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greatest artist does not have any concept

Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain

Within its excess, though only

A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti, 

GREAT QUOTES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ARTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ARTISTS
Great quotes of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble...” - Leonardo da Vinci

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” - Leonardo da Vinci