Arts Quotes: Michelangelo
"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
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Arts Quotes: Michelangelo
"A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking."
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Arts Quotes: Joan Miro
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
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Arts Quotes: Henri Matisse
"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."
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Arts Quotes: Rene-Francois-Ghislain Magritte
"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist."
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Arts Quotes: Henri Matisse
"The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, almost total kinship with the model."
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Arts Quotes: Henri Matisse
"Creativity takes courage."
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Arts Quotes: Henri Matisse
"All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone."
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Arts Quotes: Claes Oldenburg
"Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication."
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Arts Quotes: Edvard Munch
"I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart."
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Arts Quotes: Paul Klee
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible."
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Arts Quotes: Vasily Kandinsky
"There is no must in art because art is free."
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Arts Quotes: Paul Klee
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
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Arts Quotes: Pablo Picasso
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
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Arts Quotes: Émile Zola
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
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Arts Quotes: Dame Rebecca West
"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
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Arts Quotes: Simone Weil
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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Arts Quotes: Marcel Proust
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
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Arts Quotes: Rembrandt
"Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."
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Arts Quotes: Pablo Picasso
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
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Arts Quotes: Pablo Picasso
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
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Arts Quotes: Pablo Picasso
"For a long time I limited myself to one color... as a form of discipline."
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Arts Quotes: George Sand
"Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art."
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Arts Quotes: Joshua Reynolds
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
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Arts Quotes: Norman Rosenthal
"Collecting art is like a drug. It is both intensely pleasurable and highly addictive."
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