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I don't care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see. Kat Von D

Me People Care Mirror Think See About Like Look Wanna

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence. Leonardo da Vinci

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit. Leonardo da Vinci

Our Spirit Heaven Body

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body. Leonardo da Vinci

Sickness Living Medicine Restoration Discord Discordant Body Elements

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. M. C. Escher

Dreams Enough Frightening Use

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall

Life Work You Money Make Justify

You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy. Marina Abramovic

Work Art You Somebody Looking Single Energy Every Directly Feel Know Because Around How Single Thing Same Behind Turn Gallery Actually Thing Portrait Every Single Thing

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds. Mark Tobey

Trees Worlds Pavement Bark Whole Found

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent. Maurice Sendak

Fact Shape Look Pigs Always Intelligent Loved Them

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it. Norman Rockwell

Great Happy Country Big Painting Extravagance Those Some Had Picked Days Like Sort Proud Era Were Years Up Itself American Ended Crash Again Then Now Believed

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. Pablo Picasso

Work Soul Grace Picture Final Give Finish Through Coup Well Nonsense Blow Means Rid Painter

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. Pablo Picasso

Eyes Our Out Only Could Brain Use Pull

I think the gender norms of emotion are horrendous. Being masculine means showing zero emotions, but having the choice to be angry or depressed. Being female means you are one dimensional - if you show more than that, you are a psycho, hysterical, or historically, a witch. Petra Collins

Angry You Emotions Gender Think One-Dimensional Horrendous Having More Emotion Masculine Hysterical Witch Female Historically Than Norms Being Psycho Depressed Choice Means Show Showing Zero

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Pierre Bonnard

Quality Design Add Pleasant Color Does

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard

Brainy Seeing Takes Naming Precision Uniqueness Away

Art is the path to being spiritual. Piet Mondrian

Art Spiritual Path Being

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique. Primo Angeli

Great Appropriate Distinctive Memorable Trademark Dynamic Unique

Wherever art appears, life disappears. Robert Motherwell

Life Art Disappears Wherever Appears

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