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Art

«Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.»
«I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we want to say, recall, regret, or rebel against. No, what's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.»
«He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.»
«I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.»
Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat (Artist) | About: Art, Money
«Great art picks up where nature ends.»
Author: Marc Chagall (Designer, Painter) | About: Art | Keywords: picks
«However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi | About: Art, Ignorance | Keywords: Hast, in theory
«I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless but oh so fair, I bade her sit in the model's seat, And I painted her sitting there.»
Author: Robert Service (Poet) | About: Art
«I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me ... shapes and ideas so near to me ... so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.»
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe (Painter) | About: Art
«Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.»
«How rich art is; if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never without food for thought or truly lonely, never alone.»