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Rene Magritte, Golconda, oil painting, 1953.
Rene Magritte, Golconda, oil painting, 1953.

"Fine art evokes the mystery without which the globe would not exist…

"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the listen itself is unknown." ~ Rene Magritte

painting by Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, Birthday,, oil on canvas, 40 1/4″ x 25 ane/2″. Philadelphia Museum of Art. © The Estate of Dorothea Tanning

"Fine art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't run into a unlike purpose for it now." ~ Dorothea Tanning

art and quote by Judy Chicago"Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had fabricated myself into i. I did non understand that wanting doesn't ever lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an creative person (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon." ~ Judy Chicago
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quotes of famous artists
Anni Albers Wall Hanging 1926 Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Fine art, Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. and Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1969 69.134 © Estate of Anni Albers; ARS, NY & DACS, London 2018​​,

"Fine art is something that makes you lot exhale with a different kind of happiness." ~ Anni Albers

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Paul Cézanne, The Span of Trois-sautets, watercolor, 16.i″ × xx.8″. Public Domain.

"If I remember, everything is lost."

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

Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940. Harry Bribe Center, The University of Texas at Austin. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Order (ARS), New York.

"I am happy to be alive as long as I tin pigment." ~ Frida Kahlo
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Diego Rivera, El Hombre en la encrucijada ( 1934 ), from a landscape in Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico Metropolis.

"Every expert composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot manipulate with subjects birthday without his work suffering impoverishment. " ~ Diego Rivera

Gauguin
Paul Gauguin, "Tahitian: Mahana no Atua – Day of the God", oil on canvas, 25″ ten 34″, 1894. Licensed nether Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org

"Color! What a deep and mysterious linguistic communication. It is the linguistic communication of dreams." ~ Paul Gauguin

"I shut my eyes in gild to see." ~ Paul Gauguin

painting and quote by Georges Rouault "For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the nighttime, a strangled express mirth." ~ Georges Rouault


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Jackson Pollock: "Bluish Poles: Number 11″, 1952

"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the paradigm, etc., considering the painting has a life of its own." ~ Jackson Pollock

art quotes
Eugène Delacroix, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, oil on canvas, 81.viii″ 10 57.8″

"If y'all are not skillful plenty to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to autumn from the fourth story to the basis, y'all volition never be able to produce slap-up works." ~ Eugène Delacroix

Kandinsky
Wassilly Kandinsky, Blueish Mountain, oil, 76-3/8″ x 51″. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

"I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could…"

"Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power nonetheless unknown only real, which acts on every part of the man body."~ Wassily Kandinsky

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Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt, A Buss for Infant Anne (no. iii), pastel, 43.2 10 64.eight cm.

"I am contained! I can live and I beloved to work." ~ Mary Cassatt
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Matisse
Henri Matisse, "Icarus" 1946. Maquette for plate VIII of the illustrated book Jazz 1947. Digital epitome: © Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI

"Look at life with the optics of a child." ~ Henri Matisse

"I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every mean solar day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking across it." ~ Henri Matisse
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Dark

"If y'all hear a voice within you maxim, 'You are not a painter,' and so past all means pigment, boy, and that phonation will be silenced." ~ Vincent van Gogh

"In spite of everything I shall rise once again: I volition take upwards my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go along with my drawing." Vincent Van Gogh

Woman with a Fan, oil on canvas, 100 ten 65 cm, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human being race." ~ Amadeo Modigliani


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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall

"If I create from the eye, most everything works: if from the head, most cipher." ~ Marc Chagall

Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower #1
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Blossom #1

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown e'er beyond you." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Joan Miro quote and art
Joan Miro, The Grin of the Flamboyant Wings

"The works must exist conceived with fire in the soul only executed with clinical coolness." – Joan Miro

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Religion Ringgold, The Majestic Quilt

"I simply decided, when someone says y'all tin't do something. DO More than OF Information technology." ~ Faith Ringgold

Jean Dubuffet, Paris Polka (detail). Oil on Canvas, 190 x 220 cm.
Jean Dubuffet, Paris Polka (particular). Oil on Canvas, 190 x 220 cm.

"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity." ~ Jean Dubuffet

"I tin't empathize how anyone is able to pigment without optimism. Despite the full general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nada but an optimist." ~ Hans Hofmann

Michelangelo's Pietà, St Peter's Basilica (1498–99). Photo credit: Juan M Romero - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46153417
Michelangelo's Pietà, St Peter's Basilica (1498–99). Photo credit: Juan M Romero

"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, information technology wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." ~ Michelangelo

Auguste Rodin The Thinker, 1879-1889. Bronze, life-size.
Auguste Rodin The Thinker, 1879-1889. Statuary, life-size.

"The principal thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." ~ Auguste Rodin

"To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, considering his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, equally in an open up book, all the inner truth." ~ Auguste Rodin

art and quotes by famous artists"A really good film looks as if information technology's happened at once. It'south an immediate image. For my own work, when a flick looks labored and overworked… I usually throw these out, though I recollect very often it takes 10 of those over-labored efforts to produce i actually beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and center, and yous have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute" ~ Helen Frankenthaler

Cindy Sherman photograph
Cindy Sherman. Untitled #466. 2008. Chromogenic color print, eight′ ane 1/8 × 63 15/16″ (246.7 × 162.four cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Robert B. Menschel in honor of Jerry I. Speyer. © 2011 Cindy Sherman

"I was supporting myself, merely goose egg similar the guy painters, every bit I refer to them. I always resented that actually… we were all getting the aforementioned amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales."
~ Cindy Sherman

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Ophidian River, photograph.

"There is nothing worse than a sharp prototype of a fuzzy concept." ~ Ansel Adams

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982, in the collection of Yusaku Maezawa.

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is." ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Marcel Duchamp - bicycle

"I would rather wait for a public that volition come fifty years – a hundred years – after my death." ~ Marcel Duchamp, when asked whether he cared what his contemporaries idea of him.

 Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars – Land of the Modern Art World, The Essence of Cubism and its Evolution in Time, Coldcreation, 30 Nov. 2011, PD-United states of america, https://en.wikipedia.org

"One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images." ~ Sonia Delaunay

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famous artists
The Tub, 1886, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), pastel on cardboard

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

Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child

"Art is a line around your thoughts." ~ Gustav Klimt

Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper, Automat, oil on canvass, 71.4 x 91.4 cm

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." ~ Edward Hopper

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this innerlife will outcome in his personal vision of the globe." – Edward Hopper

Emily Carr, Odds and Ends, 1939
Emily Carr, Odds and Ends, 1939

"I was not ready for brainchild. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb." ~ Emily Carr

Jenny Holzer, world trade center, detail
Detail of seven Word Trade Center installation. Photo credit: Dogears, public domain, https://eatables.wikimedia.org

"I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe fustigate what I think is dangerous. And so I switched from being everybody to being myself." ~ Jenny Holzer

Tamara de Lempicka, Self-portrait, Tamara in a Green Bugatti (1929). Fair utilize, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46508483

"I was the first adult female to paint cleanly, and that was the footing of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will e'er stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished.'" ~ Tamara de Lempicka

Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, (Florence Owens Thompson, and her family) ca. 1936

"To know ahead of time what y'all're looking for means you're then only photographing your ain preconceptions, which is very limiting, and frequently false." ~ Dorothea Lange

Monet
Claude Monet, H2o Lilies, 1908

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to sympathise, when it is but necessary to love." ~ Claude Monet

Leonardo d Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna

"Where the spirit does not piece of work with the hand in that location is no art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

"You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory

"A true creative person is non i who is inspired, merely ane who inspires others." ~ Salvador Dali

"Surrealism is destructive, but information technology destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision." ~ Salvador Dali

quotes famous artists
Artemisia Gentileschi, Cocky-Portrait as the Apologue of Painting, 1638–ix, Regal Drove

"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can exercise." ~ Artemisia Gentileschi

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a full general. If you lot are a monk, yous will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." ~ Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso quote

"Fine art washes abroad from the soul the dust of every day life." ~ Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." – Pablo Picasso

James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold, The Golden Screen
James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold, The Golden Screen

"An artist is non paid for his labor but for his vision." ~ James McNeill Whistler

Large Reclining Figure (1984, based on a smaller model of 1938), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure (1984, based on a smaller model of 1938), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

"The creative habit is similar a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your cosmos lasts." ~ Henry Moore

"I acknowledge clearly and frankly that early Mexican fine art formed my views of carving as much as anything I could practise." ~ Henry Moore

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Marsden Hartley, Painting No. 48, oil on canvas, 47.2″ × 47.2″, Dick S. Ramsay Fund.

"I have always said that you lot practice not see a affair until you look abroad from it. In other words, an object or a fact in nature has not become itself until it has been projected in the realm of the imagination. ~ Marsden Hartley

Frances Bacon, Centre panel, Study for a Self-Portrait, Triptych, 1985–86.
Francis Bacon, Centre panel, Study for a Self-Portrait, Triptych, 1985–86.

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

"Some paint comes across direct onto the nervous system and other paint tells y'all the story in a long diatribe through the brain." ~ Francis Bacon

Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau, Tiger In A Tropical Tempest Surprised, National Gallery, London, England.

"Nothing makes me and then happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see."  ~ Henri Rousseau

George Inness Autumn Oaks painting
George Inness, Autumn Oaks, oil on canvass, xx iii/viii″ 10 thirty one/8″.

"The true use of fine art is, first, to cultivate the artist's ain spiritual nature." ~ George Inness

Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, The Scream

"No longer would interiors, people who read and women who knit, exist painted. There should be living people who breathe and experience, suffer and love." ~ Edvard Munch in his "Saint-Cloud Manifesto" in 1889

Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, Tate Modern. By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5673474

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to practise with me." ~ Roy Lichtenstein

Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1485, tempera on panel, 27.17" × 68.11". National Gallery, UK, Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/
Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1485, tempera on panel, 27.17″ × 68.11″. National Gallery, UK, Public Domain.

Unfortunately, there seems to no quotes in existence past Botticelli; however, this work of fine art has been described as "Mars lies comatose, presumably after lovemaking, while Venus watches equally infant satyrs play with his military gear, and one tries to rouse him by bravado a conch shell in his ear." The painting is presumed to have been created to celebrate a marriage, and decorate the chamber.

Wassily Kandinsky, Black Grid (Schwarzer Raster), 1922. Oil on canvas, 37-13/16 × 41-3/4 in. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Bequest of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1981. AM 81-65-44. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist.RMN-GP © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Wassily Kandinsky, Black Grid (Schwarzer Raster), 1922. Oil on sail, 37-thirteen/sixteen × 41-three/4 in. Heart Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Bequest of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1981. AM 81-65-44. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist.RMN-GP © 2014 Artists Rights Club (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

"Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the pianoforte with many strings. The artist is the mitt that plays, touching one fundamental or another purposively, to crusade vibrations in the soul." ~ Wassily Kandinsky

Paul Klee, Red Balloon, Oil (and oil transfer drawing?) on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (31.7 x 31.1 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase. 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Paul Klee, Red Balloon, Oil (and oil transfer drawing?) on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 12 ane/ii ten 12 ane/4 inches (31.7 x 31.1 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Manor of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase. 2015 Artists Rights Guild (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

"Art does non reproduce what we see. It makes us see." ~ Paul Klee

More Inspirational Art Quotes

"Before I start etching the idea must be nearly complete. I say 'virtually' because the really important affair seems to be the sculptor'southward ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap betwixt conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea." ~ Barbara Hepworth

"When artists requite form to revelation, their art tin can accelerate, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community." ~ Alex Grey

"Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life." ~ Agnes Martin

"I want the people looking at my work to experience a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life every bit a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful." ~ Wolf Kahn

"'Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. Information technology is a question of the perpetual motility of a right idea." ~ Ben Nicholson

"I am fifty years sometime and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life costless; when I am expressionless permit this be said of me: 'He belonged to no schoolhouse, to no church building, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to whatsoever régime except the régime of freedom." ~ Gustave Courbet

"The but affair that matters is that you are original and find your own voice. 1 could perhaps divide painters into two categories: those who take something to tell and those who exercise not." ~ Odd Nerdrum


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