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“Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
“Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech”
“Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.”
“Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.”
“Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.”
“The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.”
“The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.”
“The scholar seeks the artist finds.”
“We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.”
“Art is I science is we.”
“The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.”
“Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.”
“When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When p...”
“Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.”
“Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.”
“Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through and other people are infected by these feelings and ...”
“Culture is something you cannot buy something you cannot import something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' C...”
“Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.”
“One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.”
“Art does not reproduce the visible rather it makes it visible.”
