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1219 Artist Quotes

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Camp Artist World Art
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People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Age People Everyone Disease
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Law Think Indisputable Who
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Talk Form Structure Cheap
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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

Serve Paint Door Open
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Earth Spider Scrap Paper
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Chaste Ignorant Dangerous Forbidden
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Blind Feel Man Painter
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In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Intention Count Reason Prove
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Quality Disposal Sand Start
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Bridge Silver Stretch Vision
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Born Child Light Secret
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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Star Mirror Truth Inside
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Heart Brain Dispute Lover
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Heart Hope Dream Hate
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Slow Champion Fear Transform
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Voice Amber Yearn Burn
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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Love Pattern Umity Sewn
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To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Create Art Passion Soul
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Wonderful Bright Inside Heal
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

Common Spiritual Empowering Ignore
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Shine Soul Egoless Humility
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Wing Muddy Heal Broken
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

History Glow Kiss Grief
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

Love Mercy Hope Silence
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Taught Die Dignity Mouth
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

World Pain Stop Blood
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Time Heart Soul Melt
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Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

Affirm Brother Word Quote
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…
Shine Burn Death New
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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Peace Agony Soul Faith
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.

Temple Joy Pain School
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There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.

Envy Love Beautiful Rainbow
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Men Steel Temper Lose
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I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Image Portrait Kept Push
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Family is not who's blood is in you, is who you love and who loves you.

Family Blood Love You
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I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

Agreement Father Mother Taught
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At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Endure Think Day End
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Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Absolute Change Revolves Files
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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Woth Laughter Strength Abandon
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.

Solve Little Problems Able
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You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

Deserve Lousy Counts Best
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Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

Lover Bourbon Biscuit Look
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Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

Pleasure Struggle Process Intelligence
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I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

Love Leaving Human Never
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Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

Only Mountain Core Another
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Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

Painting Children Fulfilled Horrible
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You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin.

Deserve Safe Walks Embrace
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I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.

Fight Health Allows Pointed
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