I Wouldnt Be Where I Am Today Without the Amazing Public Arts Education That I Had

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Rene Magritte, Golconda, oil painting, 1953.
Rene Magritte, Golconda, oil painting, 1953.

"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist…

"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose significant is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." ~ Rene Magritte

painting by Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, Birthday,, oil on sheet, 40 1/four″ 10 25 1/2″. Philadelphia Museum of Fine art. © The Estate of Dorothea Tanning

"Fine art has ever been the raft onto which nosotros climb to salvage our sanity. I don't encounter a different purpose for it at present." ~ Dorothea Tanning

art and quote by Judy Chicago"In one case I knew that I wanted to exist an artist, I had fabricated myself into one. I did non understand that wanting doesn't ever atomic number 82 to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their ain lives, so, wanting to be an artist (merely without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, merely an idle fantasy, similar wanting to go to the moon." ~ Judy Chicago
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quotes of famous artists
Anni Albers Wall Hanging 1926 Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. and Edward C. Moore Jr. Souvenir, 1969 69.134 © Estate of Anni Albers; ARS, NY & DACS, London 2018​​,

"Art is something that makes you breathe with a unlike kind of happiness." ~ Anni Albers

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Paul Cézanne, The Span of Trois-sautets, watercolor, 16.1″ × 20.8″. Public Domain.

"If I remember, everything is lost."

"Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one'south sensations." ~ Paul Cézanne

Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940. Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. © 2014 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Club (ARS), New York.

"I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint." ~ Frida Kahlo
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Diego Rivera, El Hombre en la encrucijada ( 1934 ), from a mural in Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

"Every good limerick is above all a piece of work of abstraction. All good painters know this. Just the painter cannot manipulate with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment. " ~ Diego Rivera

Gauguin
Paul Gauguin, "Tahitian: Mahana no Atua – Solar day of the God", oil on canvas, 25″ 10 34″, 1894. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Eatables https://commons.wikimedia.org

"Color! What a deep and mysterious language. Information technology is the language of dreams." ~ Paul Gauguin

"I shut my eyes in order to run into." ~ Paul Gauguin

painting and quote by Georges Rouault "For me, painting is a mode to forget life. Information technology is a weep in the night, a strangled laugh." ~ Georges Rouault


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Jackson Pollock: "Blue Poles: Number 11″, 1952

"I take no fright of making changes, destroying the prototype, etc., because the painting has a life of its own." ~ Jackson Pollock

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Eugène Delacroix, Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, oil on canvas, 81.eight″ x 57.eight″

"If you are not skillful enough to sketch a man jumping out of a window in the time it takes him to fall from the 4th story to the basis, you volition never be able to produce corking works." ~ Eugène Delacroix

Kandinsky
Wassilly Kandinsky, Blueish Mount, oil, 76-3/8″ x 51″. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

"I practical streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could…"

"Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a ability withal unknown but real, which acts on every part of the homo body."~ Wassily Kandinsky

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Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt, A Kiss for Infant Anne (no. 3), pastel, 43.2 x 64.8 cm.

"I am contained! I tin can alive and I love to work." ~ Mary Cassatt
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Matisse
Henri Matisse, "Icarus" 1946. Maquette for plate VIII of the illustrated volume Jazz 1947. Digital prototype: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI

"Await at life with the eyes of a child." ~ Henri Matisse

"I didn't look to recover from my 2nd operation but since I did, I consider that I'k living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I have information technology in that way. I accept information technology gratefully without looking beyond information technology." ~ Henri Matisse
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night

"If y'all hear a vocalization within y'all saying, 'Yous are not a painter,' then by all means paint, boy, and that voice volition exist silenced." ~ Vincent van Gogh

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take upward my pencil, which I have forsaken in my bang-up discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing." Vincent Van Gogh

Woman with a Fan, oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm, Musée d'Fine art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

"What I am seeking is non the real and non the unreal merely rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the man race." ~ Amadeo Modigliani


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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall

"If I create from the heart, virtually everything works: if from the caput, almost nothing." ~ Marc Chagall

Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower #1
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Bloom #1

"Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such matter. Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown ever beyond you." ~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Joan Miro quote and art
Joan Miro, The Grin of the Flamboyant Wings

"The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness." – Joan Miro

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Faith Ringgold, The Regal Quilt

"I merely decided, when someone says you can't do something. Exercise More than OF IT." ~ Faith Ringgold

Jean Dubuffet, Paris Polka (detail). Oil on Canvas, 190 x 220 cm.
Jean Dubuffet, Paris Polka (item). Oil on Sheet, 190 x 220 cm.

"For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal ways lack of imagination, lack of inventiveness." ~ Jean Dubuffet

"I tin can't empathise how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the earth today, I am nothing simply an optimist." ~ Hans Hofmann

Michelangelo's Pietà, St Peter's Basilica (1498–99). Photo credit: Juan M Romero - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46153417
Michelangelo's Pietà, St Peter'southward Basilica (1498–99). Photo credit: Juan One thousand Romero

"If people knew how hard I worked to become my mastery, it wouldn't seem and so wonderful at all." ~ Michelangelo

Auguste Rodin The Thinker, 1879-1889. Bronze, life-size.
Auguste Rodin The Thinker, 1879-1889. Bronze, life-size.

"The master thing is to exist moved, to love, to promise, to tremble, to live." ~ Auguste Rodin

"To whatsoever creative person, worthy of the proper noun, all in nature is cute, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open up book, all the inner truth." ~ Auguste Rodin

art and quotes by famous artists"A actually good moving-picture show looks as if information technology's happened at once. It's an immediate paradigm. For my own piece of work, when a picture looks labored and overworked… I usually throw these out, though I recall very frequently information technology takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one actually beautiful wrist movement that is synchronized with your head and heart, and y'all have information technology, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute" ~ Helen Frankenthaler

Cindy Sherman photograph
Cindy Sherman. Untitled #466. 2008. Chromogenic color impress, 8′ 1 1/8 × 63 15/sixteen″ (246.7 × 162.4 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Robert B. Menschel in honor of Jerry I. Speyer. © 2011 Cindy Sherman

"I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I ever resented that actually… we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales."
~ Cindy Sherman

Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River, photograph.

"At that place is zip worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." ~ Ansel Adams

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982, in the drove of Yusaku Maezawa.

"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is." ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Marcel Duchamp - bicycle

"I would rather wait for a public that volition come fifty years – a hundred years – subsequently my decease." ~ Marcel Duchamp, when asked whether he cared what his contemporaries idea of him.

 Sonia Delaunay
Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars – State of the Mod Art Earth, The Essence of Cubism and its Evolution in Time, Coldcreation, 30 Nov. 2011, PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org

"One who knows how to appreciate colour relationships, the influence of i color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite diverseness of images." ~ Sonia Delaunay

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famous artists
The Tub, 1886, Edgar Degas (1834-1917), pastel on paper-thin

"Art is not what you lot run across, but what you lot make others see." ~ Degas

Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child

"Fine art is a line effectually your thoughts." ~ Gustav Klimt

Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper, Automat, oil on canvass, 71.4 x 91.4 cm

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." ~ Edward Hopper

"Great fine art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this innerlife will result in his personal vision of the world." – Edward Hopper

Emily Carr, Odds and Ends, 1939
Emily Carr, Odds and Ends, 1939

"I was not prepare for abstraction. I clung to globe and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her book, and I wanted to hear her throb." ~ Emily Carr

Jenny Holzer, world trade center, detail
Detail of 7 Word Trade Center installation. Photo credit: Dogears, public domain, https://eatables.wikimedia.org

"I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and peradventure bash what I think is dangerous. And so I switched from beingness everybody to being myself." ~ Jenny Holzer

Tamara de Lempicka, Self-portrait, Tamara in a Green Bugatti (1929). Fair utilise, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/alphabetize.php?curid=46508483

"I was the outset woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine volition always stand out. And then the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the heart, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. Information technology was 'finished.'" ~ Tamara de Lempicka

Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange. Migrant Female parent, (Florence Owens Thompson, and her family unit) ca. 1936

"To know alee of fourth dimension what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your ain preconceptions, which is very limiting, and ofttimes false." ~ Dorothea Lange

Monet
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1908

"Anybody discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if information technology were necessary to sympathize, when it is simply necessary to dearest." ~ Claude Monet

Leonardo d Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna

"Where the spirit does not piece of work with the hand there is no art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

"You tin can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Salvador Dali, Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, Persistence of Retention

"A truthful artist is non i who is inspired, but one who inspires others." ~ Salvador Dali

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys just what it considers to exist shackles limiting our vision." ~ Salvador Dali

quotes famous artists
Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638–ix, Royal Collection

"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do." ~ Artemisia Gentileschi

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you volition get a general. If yous are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." ~ Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso quote

"Fine art washes away from the soul the grit of every mean solar day life." ~ Pablo Picasso

"Painting is only another manner of keeping a diary." – Pablo Picasso

James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold, The Golden Screen
James McNeill Whistler, Caprice in Purple and Gold, The Gold Screen

"An creative person is not paid for his labor merely for his vision." ~ James McNeill Whistler

Large Reclining Figure (1984, based on a smaller model of 1938), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure (1984, based on a smaller model of 1938), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

"The creative habit is like a drug. The detail obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your cosmos lasts." ~ Henry Moore

"I acknowledge clearly and frankly that early Mexican fine art formed my views of carving every bit much as anything I could do." ~ Henry Moore

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Marsden Hartley, Painting No. 48, oil on canvas, 47.2″ × 47.2″, Dick South. Ramsay Fund.

"I have e'er said that y'all do not see a matter until you lot look away from it. In other words, an object or a fact in nature has not go itself until it has been projected in the realm of the imagination. ~ Marsden Hartley

Frances Bacon, Centre panel, Study for a Self-Portrait, Triptych, 1985–86.
Francis Bacon, Eye panel, Written report for a Self-Portrait, Triptych, 1985–86.

"The chore of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." ~ Francis Salary

"Some pigment comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells yous the story in a long diatribe through the brain." ~ Francis Salary

Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau, Tiger In A Tropical Storm Surprised, National Gallery, London, England.

"Nothing makes me so happy as to discover nature and to paint what I see."  ~ Henri Rousseau

George Inness Autumn Oaks painting
George Inness, Autumn Oaks, oil on canvas, twenty 3/8″ x thirty 1/viii″.

"The truthful use of fine art is, outset, to cultivate the artist'southward own spiritual nature." ~ George Inness

Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch, The Scream

"No longer would interiors, people who read and women who knit, be painted. At that place should be living people who breathe and feel, suffer and love." ~ Edvard Munch in his "Saint-Cloud Manifesto" in 1889

Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, Tate Modernistic. By Source, Off-white employ, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5673474

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me." ~ Roy Lichtenstein

Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1485, tempera on panel, 27.17" × 68.11". National Gallery, UK, Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/
Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, c. 1485, tempera on console, 27.17″ × 68.11″. National Gallery, UK, Public Domain.

Unfortunately, there seems to no quotes in existence by Botticelli; even so, this work of art has been described as "Mars lies asleep, presumably later lovemaking, while Venus watches as infant satyrs play with his military gear, and 1 tries to rouse him by blowing a conch shell in his ear." The painting is presumed to take been created to celebrate a marriage, and decorate the sleeping room.

Wassily Kandinsky, Black Grid (Schwarzer Raster), 1922. Oil on canvas, 37-13/16 × 41-3/4 in. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Bequest of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1981. AM 81-65-44. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist.RMN-GP © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Wassily Kandinsky, Black Grid (Schwarzer Raster), 1922. Oil on sail, 37-13/16 × 41-iii/iv in. Middle Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Heritance of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1981. AM 81-65-44. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist.RMN-GP © 2014 Artists Rights Social club (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

"Generally speaking, color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the optics are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching i key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul." ~ Wassily Kandinsky

Paul Klee, Red Balloon, Oil (and oil transfer drawing?) on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 12 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (31.7 x 31.1 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase. 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Paul Klee, Red Balloon, Oil (and oil transfer drawing?) on chalk-primed gauze, mounted on board, 12 i/2 x 12 i/4 inches (31.7 10 31.1 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Manor of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase. 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

"Fine art does not reproduce what we run into. It makes u.s. see." ~ Paul Klee

More Inspirational Art Quotes

"Before I start etching the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' considering the actually of import thing seems to be the sculptor's power to let his intuition guide him over the gap betwixt conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea." ~ Barbara Hepworth

"When artists requite grade to revelation, their fine art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community." ~ Alex Grey

"Happiness is existence on the axle with life – to feel the pull of life." ~ Agnes Martin

"I want the people looking at my work to experience a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I experience I've achieved something useful." ~ Wolf Kahn

"'Painting' and 'religious experience' are the aforementioned thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right thought." ~ Ben Nicholson

"I am fifty years old and I take always lived in freedom; let me terminate my life free; when I am dead let this exist said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of freedom." ~ Gustave Courbet

"The only affair that matters is that you lot are original and detect your own voice. One could perhaps divide painters into two categories: those who have something to tell and those who do not." ~ Odd Nerdrum


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