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Exlibrist Inspirational Quotes (161)

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How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!
Aubrey Beardsley
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Henri Matisse
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When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
Henri Matisse
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In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
Aubrey Beardsley
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I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.
Henri Matisse
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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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The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.
William Hogarth
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Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
William Hogarth
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All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
William Hogarth
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Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.
William Hogarth
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Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.
William Hogarth
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I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.
William Hogarth
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I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
William Hogarth
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I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
William Hogarth
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Some think that they know everybody, but they really don't know themselves.
Albrecht Durer
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Love and delight are better teachers than compulsion.
Albrecht Durer
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My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Albrecht Durer
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Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
Albrecht Durer
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Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
Albrecht Durer
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No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
Albrecht Durer
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Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.
Albrecht Durer
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
Albrecht Durer
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All art worthy of the name is religious.
Henri Matisse
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For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Henri Matisse
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