“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.” - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.”- Eric Gill
“Good painters imitate nature; bad ones spew it up.”- Miguel de Cervantes
“The people who call my work 'abstract' are imbeciles; that which they call 'abstract' is the purest realism, whose reality is not represented by exterior form but by the idea behind it, the essence of the work.”- Constantin Brancusi
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” - Edgar Degas
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”- Edward Hopper
“Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.”- Jean Cocteau
“Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.”- Louise Bourgeois
”A painting is never finished. It simply stops in an interesting place.”- Paul Gardener
“When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished.”- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”- Vincent Van Gogh
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”- Marc Chagall
”Art is an international language, that has no boundaries...”- Leonè Tonkinson,
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