Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
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Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.
Vicky Elliott
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Professor Blackie
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
John Drummond
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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Roger Lewis
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
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Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
Aaron Howard
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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
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The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
Grace Glueck
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Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Andre Breton
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck
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