Fine Art Advisory
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"Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad".
Salvador Dali
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"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery".
Francis Bacon
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"For me, art is always a kind of theater."
Damien Hirst
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"One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find."
Dan Flavin
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"I paint with shapes."
Alexander Calder
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
Pablo Picasso
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"I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human."
Gerhard Richter
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"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."
Andy Warhol
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"The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness. "
Naum Gabo
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"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing."
Louise Bourgeois
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"How you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture is vital."
Anthony Caro
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"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. "
Henri Cartier Bresson
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"Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility ."
Ai Wei Wei
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"It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said."
Jackson Pollock
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"With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. "
Kazimir Malevich
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"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work"
David Hockney
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"Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ..stop thinking! Just ask yourself if the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"
Wassily Kandinsky
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"What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince"
Lucien Freud