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Sculptor Inspirational Quotes (6124)

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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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There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
Michelangelo
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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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The most important decisions in organizations are people decisions, and yet only the military, and only recently, has begun to ask, If we assign this general to lead this base, what do we expect him to accomplish?
Peter Drucker
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Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines.
Rebecca Miller
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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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I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and once they see my work they will always recognize it.
Michael Craig-Martin
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Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
Joseph Cornell
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I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.
Isamu Noguchi
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
Willard Wigan
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When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.
Willard Wigan
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Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
Paul Gauguin
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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
Willard Wigan
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At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
Willard Wigan
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I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.
Willard Wigan
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