
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life...
Pablo Picasso
I assure you, no art was less spontaneous than mine.
Edgar Degas
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
Paul Klee
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall
To create one’s own world takes courage.
Georgia O’Keeffe
A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.
Paul Cézanne
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Henri Matisse
Artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
Henri Matisse
A certain blue enters your soul.
Henri Matisse
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador Dali
Art is to console those who are broken.
Vincent Van Gogh
Close friends are truly life's treasures. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our treats. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
Paul Gauguin
I must have flowers, always, and always.
Claude Monet
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Claude Monet
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
Paul Cezanne
What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
Paul Cezanne
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissaro
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
Camille Pissaro
Above all, keep your colors fresh.
Edouard Manet
Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.
Edouard Manet
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