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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3398)

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It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.
Sonia Delaunay
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do--dog eat dog-- that's what our culture is.... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.
Alice Neel
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I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.
Alice Neel
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You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
Alice Neel
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Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.
Alice Neel
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Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
Alice Neel
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I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their most characteristic pose, which in a way involves all their character and social standing - what the world has done to them and their retaliation.
Alice Neel
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The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.
Alice Neel
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The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
Alice Neel
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Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.
Alice Neel
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I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Alice Neel
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You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is...unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
Alice Neel
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Everything starts from a dot.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control.
Alfredo Jaar
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I think I'm a journalist in one sense - I want to communicate to people about certain things that are happening around us, around the world, close or far. In order to transform this information into art you have to add poetry. It's essential.
Alfredo Jaar
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As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity they represent for me what is left of our humanity.
Alfredo Jaar
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Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.
Alfredo Jaar
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Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.
Will Barnet
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I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark to check the luminosity. If the darker forms still have resonance and luminosity, I know the painting's working.
Will Barnet
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If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Wayne Thiebaud
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Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
Alfred Jarry
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The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
Alfred Jarry
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