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quotes[0]='What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.
—Bob Dylan'
quotes[1]='I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn\'t say any other way, things I had no words for.
—Jean Michel Basquiat'
quotes[2]='The job of the artist is to always deepen the mystery.
—Francis Bacon'
quotes[3]='I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater barreness.
—Jean Miro'
quotes[4]='An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
—Andre Malraux'
quotes[5]='Art is art. Everything else is everything else.
—Ad Reinhart'
quotes[6]='It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
—Henri Matisse'
quotes[7]='Every good painter paints what he is. Art is coming face to face with yourself. That\'s what\'s wrong with Benton. He came face to face with Michelangelo, and he lost.
—Jackson Pollack'
quotes[8]='Murder is a crime. Writing about it isn\'t. Sex is not a crime, but writing about it is. Why?
—Anonymous'
quotes[9]='Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.
—Marcel Duchamp'
quotes[10]='I am interested in ideas, not just in visual products.
—Marcel Duchamp '
quotes[11]='Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
—John Ruskin'
quotes[12]='Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up.
—Pablo Picasso'
quotes[13]='He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
—St. Francis of Assisi'
quotes[14]=' I must create a system or be enslaved by another man\'s. I will not reason and compare. My business is to create...
—Julian Schnabel'
quotes[15]='Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art - the thing you cannot explain.
—Georges Braque'
quotes[16]='Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
—Salvador Dali'
quotes[17]='I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it\'s what Yeats called the fascination with what\'s difficult. I\'m only trying to do what I can\'t do.
—Lucien Freud'
quotes[18]='In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
—Willem de Kooning'
quotes[19]='Whatever an artist\'s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
—Willem de Kooning'
quotes[20]='Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
—Philip Guston'
quotes[21]='There\'s some mysterious process at work here, which I don\'t even want to understand.
—Philip Guston'
quotes[22]='Why do people think artists are special? It\'s just another job.
—Andy Warhol'
quotes[23]='I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.
—Andy Warhol'
quotes[24]='If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.
—Marc Chagall'
quotes[25]='I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
—Chuck Close'
quotes[26]='My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Somtimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm\'s edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art. Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
—Eduard Munch'
quotes[27]='For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.
—Peter Doig'
quotes[28]='The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
—Balthus'
quotes[29]='Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don\'t know what to say about what I paint, really.
—Spencer Tunick'
quotes[30]='I\'m not an abstractionist. I\'m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I\'m interested only in expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
—Renoir'
quotes[31]='Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
—Mark Rothko'
quotes[32]='Man can\'t do without God. Just like you\'re thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can\'t go without God.
—Jean-Michel Basquiat'
quotes[33]='The role of the artist, of course, has always been that of image-maker. Different times require different images. Today when our aspirations have been reduced to a desperate attempt to escape from evil, and times are out of joint, our obsessive, subterranean and pictographic images are the expression of the neurosis which is our reality. To my mind certain so-called abstraction is not abstraction at all. On the contrary, it is the realism of our time.
—Renoir'
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