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Watercolorist Inspirational Quotes (137)

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Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
Max Jacob
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All art is an abstraction to some degree.
Henry Moore
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
Max Beerbohm
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
Max Beerbohm
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Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Henry Moore
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If an artist tries consciously to do something to others, it is to stretch their eyes, their thoughts, to something they would not see or feel if the artist had not done it. To do this, he has to stretch his own first.
Henry Moore
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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.
Max Beerbohm
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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand there I represented it in the reeds.
Caspar David Friedrich
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What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?
Helen Frankenthaler
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Music is the softest cushion in the world.
Niki de Saint Phalle
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The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
Max Beerbohm
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I have always liked drawing, when you draw you see things more intensely.
Henry Moore
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The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
Henry Moore
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I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.
Helen Frankenthaler
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The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
Henry Moore
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Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Caspar David Friedrich
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm
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Death cancels all engagements.
Max Beerbohm
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All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested in them, is make that particular sense more active and more acute.
Henry Moore
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The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.
Henry Moore
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I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.
Henry Moore
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Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger.
Anders Zorn
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I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.
Helen Frankenthaler
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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.
Henry Moore
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