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Scott Kahn Inspirational Quotes (10)

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What the artist should be asking is, Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?
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I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.
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The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.
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Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
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No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.
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Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.
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I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.
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Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.
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The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.
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I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
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