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Printmaker Inspirational Quotes (3398)

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[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost.
Gunter Grass
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I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
James Whistler
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Each brushstroke is a decision.
Robert Motherwell
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What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.
Max Beckmann
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I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway I feel so lucky that I came in that way.
Molly Crabapple
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The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.
Henri Matisse
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All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.
Alice Neel
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The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
Alberto Giacometti
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In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
Alberto Giacometti
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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
Alberto Giacometti
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
Alberto Giacometti
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Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
Alberto Giacometti
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
Alberto Giacometti
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
Alberto Giacometti
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When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.
Alberto Giacometti
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All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
Alberto Giacometti
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All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
Alberto Giacometti
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If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
Alberto Giacometti
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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
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It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.
Alberto Giacometti
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That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti
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The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
Henry Moore
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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason why I went to oil was mainly because I didn't control it. I was looking for the insecurity of it. I mean, I might have found another reason later, but at that moment, the reason was I was looking for the insecurity.
Albert Oehlen
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