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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. Abraham Maslo

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle

"One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity."
Renoir

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. Auguste Rodin

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Camille Pissarro

"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books." Charlie Chaplin

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. Daniel Pinkwater

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things." Edgar Degas

"Painting is easy for those that do not know how, but very difficult for those that do!" Edgar Degas

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." Eugene Delacroix

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." Francis Bacon

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche

"The function of Art is to disturb. Science reassures." George Braque

"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and commonsense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams." Giorgio DeChirico

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. Henri Matisse

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher

"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color." James McNeil Whistler

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. Joan Miro

"The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything...and then make something...Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it....Nothing is important...so everything is important." Keith Haring

"Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world." Leonardo da Vinci

"The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it." Leonardo da Vinci

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. Michelangelo Buonarroti

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo Buonarroti

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso

"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations." Paul Cézanne

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Rene Magritte

"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." Salvador Dali

As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I --something that is my life -- the power to create." Vincent Van Gogh

"An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men." Vincent Van Gogh

"I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." Vincent Van Gogh

"Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul." Wassily Kandinsky

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