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All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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April 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
#artquotes #painting #Caravaggio
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint
- Edward Hopper
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- Edward Hopper
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April 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint
- Edward Hopper
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- Edward Hopper
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I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art
- Pierre Bonnard
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- Pierre Bonnard
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April 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art
- Pierre Bonnard
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- Pierre Bonnard
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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall
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- Marc Chagall
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April 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall
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- Marc Chagall
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Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it in the way you see it.
- Tim Burton
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- Tim Burton
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March 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it in the way you see it.
- Tim Burton
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- Tim Burton
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Authorities are the ruination of great talents, and form almost the entire talent of mediocrities. They are the leading strings with which everyone learns to walk at the beginning of their careers, but they almost always leave a permanent mark.
- Eugene Delacroix
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- Eugene Delacroix
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March 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Authorities are the ruination of great talents, and form almost the entire talent of mediocrities. They are the leading strings with which everyone learns to walk at the beginning of their careers, but they almost always leave a permanent mark.
- Eugene Delacroix
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- Eugene Delacroix
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Everything that is dead, quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street… Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.
- Wassily Kandinsky
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- Wassily Kandinsky
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March 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Everything that is dead, quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street… Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.
- Wassily Kandinsky
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- Wassily Kandinsky
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…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
- Vincent van Gogh
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- Vincent van Gogh
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March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
- Vincent van Gogh
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- Vincent van Gogh
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Woman, I am one, and I discover in every trait, every face, pose or attitude all the women I would like to be: a child woman, a mother woman, a funny woman, a sexy woman, a sweet woman, an intelligent woman, a woman woman.
- Linda Le Kinff
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- Linda Le Kinff
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March 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Woman, I am one, and I discover in every trait, every face, pose or attitude all the women I would like to be: a child woman, a mother woman, a funny woman, a sexy woman, a sweet woman, an intelligent woman, a woman woman.
- Linda Le Kinff
#artquotes #art #lindalekinff
- Linda Le Kinff
#artquotes #art #lindalekinff
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
- Andy Warhol
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whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
- Andy Warhol
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March 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad,
whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
- Andy Warhol
#artquotes #art #andywarhol
whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
- Andy Warhol
#artquotes #art #andywarhol
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
– Marc Chagall
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– Marc Chagall
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March 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
– Marc Chagall
#artquotes #painting #marcchagall
– Marc Chagall
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I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- Jean-Michel Basquiat
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March 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I start a picture and I finish it. I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
- Frida Kahlo
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- Frida Kahlo
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March 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
- Frida Kahlo
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- Frida Kahlo
#artquotes #painting #FridaKahlo
“ All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. ”
- Wassily Kadinsky
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- Wassily Kadinsky
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March 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
“ All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity. ”
- Wassily Kadinsky
#artquotes #painting #wassilykadinsky
- Wassily Kadinsky
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“ I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for. ”
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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- Georgia O'Keeffe
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March 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“ I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way—things I had no words for. ”
- Georgia O'Keeffe
#artquotes #painting #Georgiaokeeffe
- Georgia O'Keeffe
#artquotes #painting #Georgiaokeeffe
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
– Edgar Degas
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– Edgar Degas
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March 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
– Edgar Degas
#artquotes #painting #EdgarDegas
– Edgar Degas
#artquotes #painting #EdgarDegas
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
– Edward Hopper
#artquotes #painting #EdwardHopper
– Edward Hopper
#artquotes #painting #EdwardHopper
March 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
– Edward Hopper
#artquotes #painting #EdwardHopper
– Edward Hopper
#artquotes #painting #EdwardHopper