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Drawer Inspirational Quotes (5738)

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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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I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.
Vaslav Nijinsky
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The viewer brings all additional information to the image.
Michael Craig-Martin
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber
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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
Philip Guston
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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