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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3386)

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Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Art Spiegelman
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.
Marcel Dzama
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In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.
Kiki Smith
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Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.
Victor Vasarely
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The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all.
Victor Vasarely
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I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.
Marcel Dzama
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
Nan Goldin
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What interests me is the unforeseeable.
Sigmar Polke
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My work doesn't speak about individuals (it's not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West - which is where I live and what I understand.
Beat Streuli
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I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'
James Rosenquist
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If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.
Gunter Grass
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Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.
Robert Rauschenberg
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As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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 can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I always think photographs abominable, and I don't like to have them around, particularly not those of persons I know and love. Those photographic portraits wither much sooner than we ourselves do, whereas the painted portrait is a thing which is felt, done with love.
Vincent Van Gogh
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One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.
Vincent Van Gogh
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To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God one man wrote or told it in a book another, in a picture.
Vincent Van Gogh
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To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
Vincent Van Gogh
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