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1219 Artist Quotes

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Picture Possess Generate light Long time
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted

More difficult Truly creative Painter
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In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Influence Nature Able Walk firmly
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He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back

Loves Flies Rejoices Back
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I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Recapture Freshness Vision World
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Derive happiness Good Illuminating Surrounds
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In love, the one who runs away is the winner.

In love Runs away
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I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Know Believe God Essential thing
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Years Preparation Young artist Color
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The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

Summon Energy Sincerity Greatest modesty
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I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

Wished Assert Reasoned Independent feeling
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Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.

Hatred Parasite Devours Love
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

Work Art Significance Impose
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time

Effort Distortion Courage Essential
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

Vision Creative operation Effort
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All art worthy of the name is religious.

Art worthy Name Religious
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Never ruin Painting Truth
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Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

Beauty Balance Dimensions Abstraction
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Drawing Particular dexterity Expressing Intimate feeling
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A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
New painting Birth Universe Human mind
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...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

Driven Idea Grasp Picture
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

My choice Rest Scientific theory Observation
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...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

Our time Share Opinions Feelings
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People easily quit their dream because it's not easy.

People Dream Not easy
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The most important thing for me is to win the fight and not what people are going to say.

Most important Thing Fight People
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Just do what you do. Sometimes you do well, and sometimes you do wrong, but you have to just be able to deal with yourself and move forward.

Just do Sometimes Wrong Be able
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I keep my head straight toward my goal.

Keep Head Straight Goal
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When you're used to having nothing, the first time you have something, you get really focused. You know if you lose it, it may not be easy to get it back.

Having nothing Really focused
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I'm going to make my own heaven. I'm going to struggle for it. I'm going to fight to earn everything I dream about.
Own heaven Struggle Fight Earn everything
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One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Person's craziness Another Reality
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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Visions Worth Fighting for Your life
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I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

Shadow The moon Night Your dreams
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Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die?

Happy Dream Heaven Have you
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You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.

Entirely bonkers Secret Best people
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I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I always felt kind of sad.

Never interested What everybody Felt kind
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Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.

Most people About graveyards Dead people Positive sense
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You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Know Kill you Kiss Open
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If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

Feeling Loneliness Outsider Leaves you
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Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?

Why Go up People Are dying
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Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

Art Lover Run away Comes back
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There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

Something revelatory About art Totally creative Open doors
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What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

Really good Word Art Love
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When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

I have Uniqueness Almost impossible In art
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The soul will always do what it needs to do.

The soul Always do Needs
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What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

Truth Really exist Judge My experience
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I found that life has to be edited to continue.

I found Life Be edited To continue
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I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

Feel Physically ill Make work Don't create
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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

The words Round My mind My body
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All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

All mistakes Ever made My life Been drunk
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