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Muralist Inspirational Quotes (237)

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Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
Giotto di Bondone
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The sticker has no meaning, but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning.
Shepard Fairey
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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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July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever. To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
Diego Rivera
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Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.
Shepard Fairey
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The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I think that what led largely to Trump's election was the manifestation of the too-common mindset that facts don't matter in other words, manifest destiny - the truth will not penetrate the barriers of our ideology if the truth doesn't sit well with our predispositions.
Shepard Fairey
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If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.
Shepard Fairey
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The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.
Philip Guston
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Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.
Wayne Thiebaud
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
Eugene Delacroix
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My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.
Keith Haring
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Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.
Keith Haring
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Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.
Keith Haring
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Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
Eugene Delacroix
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There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.
Philip Guston
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Philip Guston
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Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Keith Haring
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The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.
Wayne Thiebaud
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I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.
Wayne White
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Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.
Eugene Delacroix
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
Eugene Delacroix
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Everybody draws when they are little.
Keith Haring
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