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Being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists including Picasso, were all influenced by the great master paintings. And then finally, they leap, they take off. they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like Pow!
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Ned Rorem
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Ned Rorem
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
“If you could say it in words, there’d be no reason to paint.” - Edward Hopper