* "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes, I use colour more arbitrarily so as to express myself forcibly." Vincent van Gogh
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* "Fact leaves its ghost. " Francis Bacon
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* "Drawing is the probity of art - drawing includes everything except the tint."
Ingres
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* "I can further execute sculpture in marble, bronze or clay, and in painting I can
do as much as anyone, whoever he may be." Leonardo Da Vinci
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* "Art is nostalgia for God." Alexej Jawlensky
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* "Only an eye, but my God what an eye!" Ce'zanne said of Monet.
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* "For me a form is never something abstract: it is always a sign of something.
It is a man, a bird, or something else. For me painting is never form for
form's sake." Joan Miro
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* "Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator." Robert Motherwell
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* "The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows."
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* "Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you." Robert Henri
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* "We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have, our doubt
is our passion, and our passion our task. The rest is the madness of art."
Henry James
