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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
Pierre Bonnard
Art
Nature
Will
Able
Never
Without
Exist
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
Think
Some
Days
Die
Going
Satisfaction
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
Soul
Sit
Way
See
Only
No-One
Blazing
Smoke
Passers-By
Came
Continue
Hearth
May
Chimney
Ever
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life
Soul
Own
Derives
Painter
Paintings
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
Andrew Wyeth
Inspirational
Frozen
After
Fleeting
Moment
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Conrad Hall
Beauty
Kind
Imperfection
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo
Good
Feeling
Bastards
Tried
Drown
Sorrows
Learned
How
Am
Overwhelmed
Decent
Swim
Now
Good Feeling
I paint flowers so they will not die.
Frida Kahlo
Will
Die
Paint
Flowers
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
John Berger
Future
Man
Ethics
Difficult
Say
No Future
Determine
Without
Priorities
Itself
Cannot
Them
Mankind
Choices
Actions
Suggest
To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nature
You
Plant
Plants
Will
Trees
Find
Exactly
Abound
Similar
Only
Variety
Delight
Like
Another
Does
Leaves
Fruits
Which
Found
Among
Her
Extent
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Leonardo da Vinci
You
Yourself
Over
Greater
Than
Dominion
Less
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
Art
Great
Nature
Great Art
Picks
Up
Ends
Where
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Michelangelo
Good
Painting
Kind
Like
Looks
Sculpture
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
Pablo Picasso
Today
World
Sense
Pictures
Make
Should
Paint
Why
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
Day
Will
Single
Revolution
Carrot
Observed
Coming
Off
Set
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Time
Master
Understanding
One Thing
Insight
Well
Understands
Same
Same Time
Many
Thing
Things
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
Yayoi Kusama
Life
Beautiful
Clouds
Will
Rise Above
Down
Think
Able
Rise
Above
Beautiful Life
Look
Climb
End
Heaven
In The End
Stairs
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet
Love
Art
People
Pretend
Simply
Understand
Were
Discuss
To Love
Necessary
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Frank Miller
Time
Best
Hero
Fact
Dirty
He
Knight
Noir
Armor
Does
His
Blood
Deny
Whole
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Hate
Cheaper
Because
Than
Models
Move
Them
Paint
Flowers
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann
Work
Art
Emotions
World
Itself
Reflecting
Artist
Senses
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann
Art
Personality
Every
Temperament
Artist
Rooted
Expression
Fundamentally
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
Happiness
Work
Good
Day
Fog
Oneself
Surrounds
Us
Derive
Illuminating
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Henri Matisse
Art
Soul
Impressionism
Newspaper
Stars that shine bling in the moon night, might I find true love sqirreled away tonight?
Isabel Yosito
Love
True Love
Moon
Shine
Stars
Find
True
Might
Away
Night
Tonight
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
Game
Man
Construction
Big
Building
Earth
Pen
Say
Penn
Some
Brush
West
Iron
Artist
Whether
Mean
Ore
Plains
Creating
Molding
Shovel
Choose
Who
Things
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