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Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...
Tracey Emin
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni
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Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which weighed on their souls. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles around us.
Umberto Boccioni
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I don't draw every day. I tend to draw intensely during certain periods of time. I draw to amuse myself on occasion, when I am bored and drawing is the only fun to be had.
David Shrigley
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It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
Umberto Boccioni
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These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
Umberto Boccioni
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To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
Umberto Boccioni
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The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
John French Sloan
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Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
Edgar Degas
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
Urs Fischer
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If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot of the artists I like share this understanding.
Urs Fischer
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
Urs Fischer
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
Urs Fischer
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I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth
Patti Smith
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And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
Donald Judd
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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
Jackson Pollock
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
Larry Rivers
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
David Hockney
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I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.
David Hockney
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Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
Eugene Delacroix
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Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless
Art Spiegelman
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People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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I am not crying, but have tears in my heart.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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