Category: painter
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I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I hate flowers – I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
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Disciples be damned. It’s not interesting. It’s only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
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Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
Claude Monet
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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Georgia O’Keeffe