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Poster Artist Inspirational Quotes (73)

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Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.
Peter Behrens
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When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.
Kathe Kollwitz
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Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?
Kathe Kollwitz
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Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
Kathe Kollwitz
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Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.
Peter Behrens
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I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Look at life with the eyes of a child.
Kathe Kollwitz
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The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.
John Heartfield
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Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.
Peter Behrens
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It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
Aubrey Beardsley
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I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.
Kathe Kollwitz
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I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.
Kathe Kollwitz
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It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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I have received a commission to make a poster against war. That is a task that makes me happy. Some may say a thousand times that this is not pure art.... but as long as I can work, I want to be effective with my art.
Kathe Kollwitz
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Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.
Peter Behrens
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I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
Aubrey Beardsley
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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Aubrey Beardsley
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Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message
Alphonse Mucha
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I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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