No one has ever been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about...The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.
Norman Cousins
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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Paul Cezanne
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
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The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
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