5008 quotes by artists for you to enjoy

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. Emily Carr

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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. Emily Carr

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Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way. Eric Fischl

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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do. Eric Fischl

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. Eugene Delacroix

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I'm a mermaid now, half my body. Eve Babitz

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I've often noticed that there is a moment when a man develops enough confidence and ease in a relationship to bore you to death. Sometimes one hardly even notices it's happened, that moment, until some careless remark arouses one's suspicions. Eve Babitz

'Dirty Dancing' is one of my favorite movies, and I was in love with Patrick Swayze for years, but I tried to stay out of his way and never to meet him because I knew if I did, he'd want to talk about yogurt or some weird dietary restriction or something. Eve Babitz

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I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him. Eve Babitz

People with brains went to New York, and people with faces came West. Eve Babitz

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I looked like Brigitte Bardot, and I was Stravinsky's goddaughter. Eve Babitz

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I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.' Eve Babitz

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