Category: painter
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
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I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something – anything I had done – than anyone else I know.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it.
Georgia O’Keeffe
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Pablo Picasso
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Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.
Pablo Picasso
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I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I’ve done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.
Claude Monet
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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Pablo Picasso
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
Pablo Picasso