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Famous artist quotes

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. Salvador Dali

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. Salvador Dali

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. Salvador Dali

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs. Leonardo da Vinci

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. Michelangelo

Genius is eternal patience. Michelangelo

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting. Gustave Courbe

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not a sculpture. Paul Cezanne

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. Kasimir Malevich

The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art. Kasimir Malevich

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks would be a good idea to give them. Andy Warhol

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it. Vladimir Mayakovsky

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. Auguste Rodin