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Watercolorist Inspirational Quotes (137)

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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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To be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore
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There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
Henry Moore
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I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.
Helen Frankenthaler
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Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
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Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present.
Henry Moore
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The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
Caspar David Friedrich
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It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Henry Moore
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It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks but that is another matter.
Max Beerbohm
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Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.
Henry Moore
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The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.
Max Beerbohm
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Max Beerbohm
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To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
Henry Moore
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm
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In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.
Henry Moore
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A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.
Henry Moore
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You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
Helen Frankenthaler
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No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Max Beerbohm
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The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm
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It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
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One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Henry Moore
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I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.
Henry Moore
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