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I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Nature
You
Beauty
Flower
Scale
Could
Huge
Decided
If I Could
Ignore
Paint
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
Hope
Marriage
Out
Bag
Putting
Like
Snakes
Hand
Your
Pulling
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
Ignorance
Open Your Eyes
Eyes
Wretched
Open
Mislead
Mortals
Blinding
Does
Us
Your
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
Master
Pupil
Does
Surpass
His
Poor
Who
The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
Marjane Satrapi
War
People
Stupid
East
Between
Stupid People
Real
West
Intelligent
Real War
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
You
Give
Only
Computers
Answers
Useless
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Paul Klee
Art
Walk
Line
Dot
The way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
Love
Way
Know
To Love
Many
Things
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
Andy Warhol
Strange
Sometimes
Wish
Action
Every
Way
Everywhere
Negotiation
Solitary
Born
Compromise
Between
Courageous
Always
His
Often
Human
Human Beings
Forms
Social
Yours
Actions
Beings
Chains
Ridiculous
Her
Daisy
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
Andy Warhol
Art
You
Be Real
Real
Get
Trying
Right
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Andy Warhol
Art
You
Long
Enough
Look
Loses
Afraid
Meaning
Thing
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da Vinci
Time
You
Water
First
Touch
Rivers
Passed
Which
Present
Present Time
Last
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge
Our
Perceptions
Origins
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intelligence
Passion
Out
Drives
Intellectual
Sensuality
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
M. C. Escher
You
Also
Sure
Ceiling
Really
Floor
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Vincent Van Gogh
Better
Mistakes
Too
Though
More
Makes
Narrow-Minded
Than
Prudent
Even
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh
Work
Live
Dare
Must
Wants
Really
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh
Me
Knowledge
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Fall
Own
My Own
Only
Making
Up
Get
Cannot
Again
Even
Keep
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Frida Kahlo
You
Fly
Wings
Feet
Need
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
Alone
Best
Know
Because
Am
Person
Often
Paint
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
Leonardo da Vinci
Lie
Darkness
Light
Increased
Diminished
Detail
Shadow
Could
Between
Understood
Beginnings
Infinitely
May
Ends
Form
Which
Forms
Bodies
Means
Display
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Michelangelo
Life
Art
God
Me
Man
Worth
My Life
Long
Poor Man
Possible
Given
Am
Order
Little
Poor
Who
Extend
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
Happiness
Life
Work
Time
You
Hate
Will
Situation
Rule
Pleasure
Give
Never
Look
Permit
Dichotomy
Which
Spare
Spare Time
Much
Your
Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
Ad Reinhardt
Art
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Andy Goldsworthy
Winter
Quality
Isolated
Patch
Snow
Special
Even
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
Change
Creative
Inspire
Thinking
Inspires
Ideas
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