I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they...
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W. Somerset Maugham
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
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Frida Kahlo
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
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Amit Kalantri
ARTThe world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I wish...
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Jay Woodman
Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightly-colored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush...
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C. Joybell C.
More Quotes By Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to...
Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space...
Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
