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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Josef Albers

Art Perception Seen Medium Relative Visual Physically Fact Color Never Almost Most Makes Really

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. Josef Albers

Teacher Family Me You See Safe Terrible Wanted Painter

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. Julian Schnabel

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more. Kathe Kollwitz

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. Keith Haring

Me Poetry Fallen Been Up Swallowed Enlightened

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. Kenneth Noland

Me Key Understanding Everything Context

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me. Kevyn Aucoin

Me People Try First Beauty Find Hoping See Could Through First Place Makeup Doing Began Place Themselves Helping Helping People Why

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. Kevyn Aucoin

Forgiveness Beauty Never Soon Forgiven Going Realized

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. Kevyn Aucoin

Success Travel Rather Road Failures Huge Than Middle

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo da Vinci

Beautiful Nature Simple Will Invention Nothing Superfluous Direct More Inventions Never Devise Because Does Than Lacking Human Subtlety Her

I have wasted my hours. Leonardo da Vinci

Hours Wasted

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. Leonardo da Vinci

Animals Sense Composed Composition Faculties Thus Instruments Human Human Body Spaces Ingenious Bodies Body Less Organs Compared Found Receiving

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle. Leonardo da Vinci

Nature Cause Will Giving Support Know Sinews Well Limb Said How Causes Surround Contraction Very Familiar Movement Which Swelling Who Painter Many Muscle Muscles

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly. Leonardo da Vinci

Man Fly Build Machine Destiny Would Allow Felt Always

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near. Leonardo da Vinci

Great Distance Eye Object Smaller Does Than Large Appear Near

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue. Leonora Carrington

Fatigue Form Sentimentality

Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits. Louise Bourgeois

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. Louise Bourgeois

You Will Own Tell Story Interesting Your

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. Lucian Freud

Out Object Given Part Aura Person Them Much Flesh

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