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Comment by Madalena Lobao_Tello on March 26, 2009 at 5:53pm

Pablo Picasso

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.


Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.


Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.


What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.


Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

Comment by Madalena Lobao_Tello on November 10, 2008 at 11:21pm

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed
world.. the picture.. which, like a book, has the same
interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an
artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time
doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.
Pierre Bonnard

Comment by maryse on November 1, 2008 at 11:47am

Im never satisfied in staying in one spot for very long, I couldnt stay with the mountains, I couldnt stay with the tress, and I couldnt stay with the rivers. But I can always stay with people, because they are really different. Imogen Cunningham, early American photographer

Comment by Madalena Lobao_Tello on October 3, 2008 at 6:35pm

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

Mahatma Gandhi

Comment by sangita chaudhuri on September 14, 2008 at 6:34am

Comment by Boguslaw Ryczko on September 14, 2008 at 5:04am

Saludos a todos.

Comment by Brajanne on September 3, 2008 at 9:12pm

Art quotes from William Blake

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

Comment by Madalena Lobao_Tello on September 3, 2008 at 1:21pm

Pregnant Woman

Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984)</</i>b> was an American portrait painter. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity.

- Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

- I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

- You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

- You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is.. unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
Alice Neel

Comment by CHAKRADAR on August 15, 2008 at 3:18pm

art is life
life is art

Comment by Madalena Lobao_Tello on August 4, 2008 at 1:26pm

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.
Jean Arp

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