Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
There is no must in art because art is free.
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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