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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Vincent Van Gogh
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.
Vincent Van Gogh
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In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
Vincent Van Gogh
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For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.
Andy Griffith
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
Andy Goldsworthy
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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
Andy Goldsworthy
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The early firings contained many stones.
Andy Goldsworthy
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
Andy Goldsworthy
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
Andy Goldsworthy
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
Andy Goldsworthy
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy
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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
John Lone
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As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.
Viola Davis
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Viola Davis
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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.
Viola Davis
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