Quotes on Art
I really enjoy what artists have to say about their art, or just what they have to say in general. Here are some interesting insights. (I always meant to post this, but I think i forgot about it... if I have posted it before, sorry).
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Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace the perfect circle.
Besides if you're trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
~Pablo Picasso~
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If objective vision were possible, it would give us a true image of reality.
~Piet Mondrian~
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The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor heirarchy in art. Because these artists of the 16th century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying.
Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality.
~Fernand Leger~
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I was aware at that time that, for the spectator more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug
~Marcel Duchamp~
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Very blue this afternoon. I suppose it comes from abstaining from the customary afternoon cup of coffee. You must make yourself a strong man. You are on the threshold as an artist. Be firm and determined.
Accustom yourself to master things which you seem to despair of.
The love you liberate in your work is the only love you keep.
~Maurice Brazil Prendergast~
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Any work that I like does the same to me-- it makes me see other things. It makes me aware of reality, although it may not be very realistic in itself. I can only put it that way-- that it unlocks the valves of sensation.
~Francis Bacon~
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The scholar specialized in any field will find that the more he knows, the more he will have to learn, and never should he hope to reach full knowledge. Besides, full knowledge would be death itself. Art and science mean trying to understand. Failure or success plays a secondary role.
Words pervert thoughts, writing distorts words.
~Alberto Giacometti~
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Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace the perfect circle.
Besides if you're trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.
~Pablo Picasso~
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If objective vision were possible, it would give us a true image of reality.
~Piet Mondrian~
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The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor heirarchy in art. Because these artists of the 16th century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying.
Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality.
~Fernand Leger~
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I was aware at that time that, for the spectator more than for the artist, art is a habit forming drug
~Marcel Duchamp~
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Very blue this afternoon. I suppose it comes from abstaining from the customary afternoon cup of coffee. You must make yourself a strong man. You are on the threshold as an artist. Be firm and determined.
Accustom yourself to master things which you seem to despair of.
The love you liberate in your work is the only love you keep.
~Maurice Brazil Prendergast~
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Any work that I like does the same to me-- it makes me see other things. It makes me aware of reality, although it may not be very realistic in itself. I can only put it that way-- that it unlocks the valves of sensation.
~Francis Bacon~
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The scholar specialized in any field will find that the more he knows, the more he will have to learn, and never should he hope to reach full knowledge. Besides, full knowledge would be death itself. Art and science mean trying to understand. Failure or success plays a secondary role.
Words pervert thoughts, writing distorts words.
~Alberto Giacometti~
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