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"978 Art Quotes

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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Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!

Because Born Character Created
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Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Action Confounded Drama Philosophy
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Art Concerning Consult Goddess
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Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Art Deserves Divine Force
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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Every good painter paints what he is.
Every Good He Painter
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Before Canvas Ever Hardly
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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Art Better Connecting Connection
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

Art Important Really Risk
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Art Deeper Discover I Think
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Come Life Own Painting
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Color Drawings Final Make
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Artist Every Good He
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Drove Hard He His
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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Anyone Art Else Make
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Art Construction Europe Possible
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In art economy is always beauty.

In art Economy Beauty
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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Art is competitive.

Art Competitive
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

Been Eclectic Far Fun
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Art is the objectification of feeling

Art Objectification Feeling
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.

Animal Animals Blame Disney
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I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

Always Blood Dirt Makeup
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Art Cannot Irresponsibility Part
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art Cracked Irish Servant
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Our task is to find teaching methods that continually engage the whole human being. We would not succeed in this endeavor if we failed to concentrate on developing the human sense of art.

Art Being Concentrate Continually
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The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

Based Basis Become Build
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Drawing Dragged down Level Wise
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When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Allow Being BeingDone Children
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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

About Arts Chance Everything
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Acting Nice Open People
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At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

Artist Money Celebrity Time
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
Art Like Making People
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Admire Art Become Creative
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I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Art Brings Depend Good
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I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.

Art Exploring Fiction Human
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