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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    Andy Warhol
    “An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
    Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

  • #3
    Pablo Picasso
    “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
    Pablo Picasso
    tags: art

  • #4
    Orson Welles
    “The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
    Orson Welles
    tags: art

  • #5
    Émile Zola
    “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
    Émile Zola

  • #6
    Marcel Duchamp
    “I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    Marcel Duchamp

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: art

  • #8
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #9
    “Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.”
    Joan Erickson

  • #10
    Brian Keene
    “Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.”
    Brian Keene

  • #11
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #12
    Pablo Picasso
    “Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #13
    MaryAnn F. Kohl
    “Art is a process, not a product.”
    maryann kohl

  • #14
    Pablo Picasso
    “The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #15
    Marcel Duchamp
    “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
    Marcel Duchamp

  • #16
    Paul Klee
    “One eye sees, the other feels.”
    Paul Klee
    tags: art

  • #17
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    tags: art, words

  • #18
    Salvador Dalí
    “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
    Salvador Dalí
    tags: art

  • #19
    Paul Gauguin
    “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
    Paul Gauguin

  • #20
    Edgar Degas
    “Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.”
    Edgar Degas

  • #21
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #22
    Pablo Picasso
    “Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #23
    Émile Zola
    “Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.”
    Emile Zola

  • #24
    Paul Klee
    “Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.”
    Paul Klee
    tags: art

  • #25
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    “A poor original is better than a good imitation.”
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • #26
    James Baldwin
    “The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”
    James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

  • #27
    Paul Klee
    “Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”
    Paul Klee

  • #28
    Jean Cocteau
    “Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
    Jean Cocteau

  • #29
    Robert Henri
    “A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.”
    Robert Henri
    tags: art

  • #30
    Marcel Duchamp
    “Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.”
    Marcel Duchamp
    tags: art



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