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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
Claude Monet

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso quotes (Spanish Artist and Painter. 1881-1973

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887

“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things”
Edgar Degas quotes (French Artist. 1834-1917

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Edgar Degas quotes (French Artist. 1834-1917

Paul Gauguin ::: :::

+ The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
+ I wished to suggest by means of a simple nude, a certain long-lost barbaric luxury.
+ Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
+ We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
+ But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
+ Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
+ Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! gauguin

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.”
Paul Gauguin

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.”
Paul Gauguin

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
Paul Gauguin

“In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.”
Paul Gauguin

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”
Paul Gauguin

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.”
Paul Gauguin

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”
Paul Gauguin

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.”
Paul Gauguin

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves”
Paul Gauguin

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. -Leo Tolstoy "What is Art?"

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting. (Dan Thompson

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. (Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

It is helpful to consider any technique that stimulates "abstract thinking" because these help the brain fully absorb and appreciate, and this may lead to greater creativity. (Ken Strong)

Theories, methods and formulas aid in the making of art, but each artist's technique comes more from his or her personality than anything else. (Randall Sexton)

It takes a long time to become loose without losing it. (Sandy Sandy

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The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come. (Steven Pressfield)

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. (Jackson Pollock)
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. (Jackson Pollock

When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end – the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting. (Walter J. Phillips)

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