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Selected quotes archive
| “ | Art and life are connected, because if you are making good art where you live then what you experience will affect what you make. | ” |
| — Austin Lee, "Of El Greco and Emoticons: An Interview With Artist Austin Lee". ArtNet. 2016-12-28. Retrieved 2018-07-03. |
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| “ | There are two distinct languages. There is the verbal, which separates people… and there is the visual that is understood by everybody. | ” |
| — Yaacov Agam, "10 Quotes from Famous Artists to Remind Us Why Art Matters". Park West Gallery. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2018-07-03. |
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| “ | The only true reality is my feelings, played out within the confines of my body. | ” |
| — Maria Lassnig, Piepenbring, Dan (2016-10-03). "Woman Power". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2018-06-17. |
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| “ | Even when I had a fellowship for painting, some of my teachers were very hostile. 'You're taking this too seriously. You're only a girl. Don't set your heart on art.' My boyfriends in college stole my brushes and my books, like, 'We need this more than you do.' | ” |
| — Carolee Schneeman, Rose, Steve (2014-03-10). "Carolee Schneemann: 'I never thought I was shocking'". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-17. |
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| “ | Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women – women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in – older women and younger men. | ” |
| — Louise Bourgeois, Bourgeois, Louise; Avedon, Elizabeth; Kuspit, Donald B (1988). Bourgeois: [an interview with Louise Bourgeois. New York: Vintage Books. p. 76. ISBN 0394747925. |
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| “ | There is no reality which is not beautiful in some fashion....The greatest way art has of encouraging the desire to like the world is to have pathos and satisfaction one. | ” |
| — Eli Siegel, http://www.aestheticrealism.net/tro/tro226.html |
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| “ | Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. | ” |
| — Henri Matisse, unknown |
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| “ | Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. | ” |
| — Leonard Baskin, Publishers Weekly (April 5, 1965) |
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| “ | When I've painted a woman's behind so that I want to touch it, then it's finished! | ” |
| — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vollard, Ambroise (1925). Renoir: an initimate record. Translated by Van Dooren, Harold L.; Weaver, Randolph T. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 57. OCLC 631984646. |
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| “ | Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. | ” |
| — G. K. Chesterton, unknown |
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| “ | Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. | ” |
| — Edgar Degas, unknown |
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| “ | The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. | ” |
| — Marcel Duchamp, The Creative Act (1957) |
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| “ | Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw. | ” |
| — Simon Munnery, Attention Scum! |
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| “ | Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. | ” |
| — Salvador Dalí, People (September 27, 1976) |
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| “ | Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. | ” |
| — Robert Motherwell, The Times (November 17, 1985) |
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| “ | I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. | ” |
| — Joan Miró, unknown |
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Adding a quote
- Go to Portal:Visual arts/Selected quote/Layout and grab the layout template.
- Go to the next available subpage (Portal:Visual arts/Selected quote/n+1 - where n is the number of the topmost biography below, as it will be throughout these instructions).
- Paste the layout template into the subpage and fill in the appropriate fields.
- On this page, add the following text directly above the topmost selected image:
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- Go to the main portal page edit screen and find the following text. Look closely as there are other similar components on the page.
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- Change the max attribute from n to n+1. Save and you're done! Thanks for the contribution.