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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Salvador Dali
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Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
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My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.
Karel Appel
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The sculptures do not take their belongings to the world for granted, they are trying to find their place in it and they do not take the act of standing as a given; they are learning to stand.
Sir Antony Gormley
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I paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida Kahlo
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Art washes away from the soul, the dust of every day life.
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
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When we are no longer children, we are already dead.
Damian Hirst
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Artists don’t make objects, they make mythologies.
Anish Kapoor
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Vincent van Gogh
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I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what's art.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Good business is the best art!
Andy Warhol
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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miró
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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Photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoiled by progress.
Banksy
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I don’t buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work
Charles Saatchi (art collector)
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I’m actually trying to make sense of the world, there's nothing cynical or absurd in what I do
Yue Minjun
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Art is not what you see, but what you show others.
Edgar Degas
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A painting is not a picture of an experience, but it IS the experience.
Mark Rothko
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To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It's a way of life
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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To be an artist is to believe in life
Henry Moore
