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CibbuanoQuotes by Famous Artists
December 22nd 2007 00:00
Words to get you positive for the New Year
Leonardo Da Vinci Self Portrait
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. Leonardo Da Vinci
It is only logical that exceptional people often have incisive observations about their chosen fields of endeavour. Often motivating the aspiring and arising apprentice, offering the wisdom to succeed, artists are no different.
Some Christmas cheer for us clawing to make it. Here are a selection of quotes by famous artists that I draw on for motivation in my own struggles to achieve a semblance of creative expression.
I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. Jean Michel Basquait
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. Salvador Dali
The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock
Edvard Munch's Scream
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. Edvard Munch
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. Paul Gauguin
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance. - Henri Matisse
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. Frida
A sample of Renoir's handiwork
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished. Renoir
I mean if somebody likes a painting it is because he sees something personal in it, something he relates to. There are different reasons for it. There could be archetypes of what he likes in it, or some hidden feeling, or something that frightens him. HR Giger
Walt Disney's recognized rodent
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. Chuck Jones
Watch a nifty animated slide show of further notable artists quotes accompanied by a sample work of distinction.
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