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1. ART QUOTES
 AGirlof Art cannot besatisfied with being a representation, it should bea
presentation.
 AWork of Art which didnot begin inemotion isnot art.
 Action isthe foundational key to allsuccess.

2.  Allour knowledge has its origins inour perceptions.
 An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable
him to print, A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to
work.

3.  Art distils sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning memorable form
-or else isnot Art-.
 Art for art’s sake makes no more sense than gin for gin’s sake.
 Art is long, lifeis short, A picture can become for as a highway between a
particular thing and a universal feeling.

4.  Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
 Artists must besacrificed to their art, likes bees, they must put their lives into
the sting they give.

5.  Art is not made for anybody and is,at the same time, for everybody.
 Art is not what you see, but what you make other see.
 Art should be something likea good armchair in which to rest from physical
fatigue.

6.  Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
 Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many willnever
learn to trust the great artists.
 Artists, by definition innocent, don’t steal, but they do borrow without
giving back.

7.  As apainter I shall never signify anything ofimportance, Ifeel it absolutely.
 As awell-spent day brings happy sleep, soa life wellspent brings Happy
death.
 Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic, from before meaning as
opposed to meaning before form, It grows from inside out while Romantic
grows from outside in.

8.  Creativity takes courage.
 Do not copy nature too much, Art is an abstraction.

9.  Drawing isthe honesty of the art, There is no possibility of cheating It iseither
Good orBad.
 Everything innature is formed upon the sphere the cylinder, One must learn to
paint these simplefigures and then one can do allthat he may wish.
 Expect nothing, Appreciate everything.

10.  Fine rat isthat in which the hand, The head and the heart ofman go together.
 Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly
uninteresting inwhat they are.
 I wonder whether Art has ahigher function then to make me feel,appreciate,
and enjoy natural objects for their Art value
.

11.  If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after allbecause Happiness does not
interest them.
 In a successful painting everything isintegral – all the parts belong to the
whole, If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.
 In painting I went to say something comforting in the way that music is
comforting.
 Interpretation isthe revenge of the intellect upon Art.

12.  I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of allcolours is black
.
 Never trust an Art dealer who’ll sit in aroom for more than ten minutes with a
crooked picture.
 No great artist ever seen things as they really are, If he did,he would cease to be
an Artist.

13.  One of the most difficult things to doto isthe paint darkness which
nonetheless has light in it.
 Painting isan extension of men’s means of communication, As such, it’s pure,
difficult and wonderful.
 Painting issilent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
 Rembrandt painted about 700pictures – of these, 3000are in existence.

14.  Since giving up Architecture… Iseem to have drifted away from the desire to
paint building… Instead it is group of building clustered inthe from the
Villages or Towns…

15.  Since the earliest times – from the cave artists to the modern painters – Artists
have enriched the plastic vocabulary and each generation of men has seen
through the eyes of the Artists of the preceding generation.
 Still,there is acalm, Pure harmony and music inside of me.
 Style, the human body, isspecially beautiful when the veins are not prominent
and the bones cannot be counted.

16.  The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
 The genuine isas much adissatisfied person as the revolutionary, Yet how
diametrically opposed are the products each distils from his dissatisfaction.

17.  The intuitive mind isa sacred gift and the rational mind is afaithful servant,
We have created asociety that honours the servant and has forgotten the
Gift.
 The object of Art is to give lifea shape.
 The painting has alife of its own, I try to let it come through

18.  The scholar seeks, the Artist finds.
 The trouble with doing something right the first time isthat nobody
appreciates how difficult itwas.
 To touch Art is to touch the mind, to touch the mind is to touch a Life.

19.  We didn’t choose to create Art – it chose us.
 What we do solitary endeavour – adistillation of our own mind, ofour own
Talent, of own feelings and aripping open ofthe gut to bearthe fruit of our
‘Art Womb’
 When everyone a an Artist, no one an artist.

20.  When you are what you do,then when you don’t you’re not.