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“A man who has no imagination has no wings.” Muhammad Ali








“I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance” Francis Bacon








“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” Claude Monet












“none of my works done before my seventeenth year is really worth counting” Hokusai (1760–1849)
















"We are all works in progress" Carmen Dell'Orefice


















"Without great solitude, no serious work is possible" Pablo Picasso







"Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet" Leonardo da Vinci




“If you know before you see, you can’t see for knowing” Terry Frost






“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour.” J. Paul Getty





“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary” Pablo Picasso



























"All art is propaganda but not all propaganda is art" George Orwell












"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol











































It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable colour to every object; beware of this stumbling block” Paul Gauguin





















"Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes," Steve Jobs








“Drawing is taking a line for a walk” Paul Klee







"Everyone is an artist, artist is just a frame of mind" Yoko Ono





"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh











"Culture is the antidote to propaganda" Vivienne Westwood




































"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso






















































































"Listen to the sound of your brush" John Walker, English painter


























“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know” John Keats













































“Design like you give a damn” Cameron Sinclair


















"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" Francis Bacon














"There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman" Émile Zola







































































"question everything” Shepard Fairey












"I Am the Artist when I am Open" Brion Gysin























"Everything we see hides another thing" Rene Magritte











"I have never painted a recent painting" Man Ray (October 1965)


























"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful" William Morris
























“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” Claude Monet













"Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint you can on it" Danny Kaye













“Exuberance is beauty." William Blake






''I paint flowers so they will not die'' Frida Kahlo






"I don't know if something can be too colourful" Chihuly





























"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety." W. Somerset Maugham








“…an example of the mental peculiarity of the human being, from which spring both their vices and their intelligence, namely the power of imagination to break up habits and initiate new lines of conduct.” Bertrand Russell


























“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” Frank Lloyd Wright











“The seconds, the minutes, the hours, the days, the weeks, the months, the years flow from an inexhaustible reserve of Future to become transformed inexorably into the Past. From decades to centuries, from centuries to millennia, History darkens into Prehistory, to vanish into the night of bio-, geological and astral ages. The present is only infinitesimal, and yet man has always tried to fix, to prolong, to ‘eternalise’ this present, conscious of his finality…” Vasarely



























“Painting is like writing a book” Ridley Scott





"It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said" Jackson Pollock







“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” Le Corbusier












"Art is not based on a number of static concepts but changes and extends its boundaries in response to the shifts of emphasis in the intellectual and emotional situation of each period in history". Maurice de Sausmarez










"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso



"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity" Alberto Giacometti








“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things .” Edgar Degas.










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