Famous Art Quotes And Sayings

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“The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.”
– Georges Braque

“In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.”
– Georges Braque

“Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.”
– Georges Braque

“It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.”
– Georges Braque

“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“The days you work are the best days.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

“When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.”
– Henri Matisse

“Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?”
– Henri Matisse

“What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.”
– Henri Matisse

“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
– Henri Matisse

“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
– Henri Matisse

“Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.”
– Henri Matisse

“Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.”
– Henri Matisse

“I wouldn’t mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.”
– Henri Matisse

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
– Henri Matisse

“Creativity takes courage.”
– Henri Matisse

“Work cures everything.”
– Henri Matisse

“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”
– Henry Moore

“To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
– Henry Moore

“When you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.”
– Jackson Pollock

“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
– Jackson Pollock

“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.”
– Jackson Pollock

“I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.”
– Jackson Pollock

“Every good painter paints what he is.”
– Jackson Pollock

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