Great artists have no country. Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857) French poet and playwright.

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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. Salvador Dal (1904 - 1989) Spanish surrealist painter. Diary of a Genius (Richard Howard (tr.)) ========================== I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor.

========================== It doesn't hurt an artist to taste a bit of madness... Ayi Kwei Armah (1939 - ) Ghanaian writer and educator. Fragments ========================= Rejection, derision, poverty, failure, the constant struggle against one's own limitations these are the chief events in the lives of most great artists. Stephen Vizinczey (1933 - ) Hungarian-born British writer, editor, and broadcaster. Truth and Lies in Literature =============================

For painters, poets and builders have very high flights, but they must be kept d own. Sarah Churchill (1660 - 1744) English courtier. Letter to the Duchess of Bedford =========================== A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792) British painter and writer. Discourse to the students of the Royal Academy ===========================

A portrait is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth. Attributed to Eugene Speicher (1883 - 1962) U.S. painter. =========================== Art is a revolt against fate. Andr Malraux (1901 - 1976) French writer and statesman. Les voix du silence ==========================

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it. Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930) Russian poet and playwright, 1925?. ============================== Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Benedetto Croce (1866 - 1952) Italian philosopher, historian, and politician. Esthetic

============================== Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) U.S. portrait painter. ============================

I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs , these mandarins who 'appreciate' beauty. What is beauty anyway? There's no such thing. I never 'appreciate,' any more than I 'like.' I love or hate. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor. ============================ If it is art, it is not for the masses. Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) Austrian-born U.S. composer. Letter to W. S. Schlamm ============================ I've always been interested in the insanities of people rather than nature; it would never occur to me to do the Grand Canyon. Al Hirschfeld (1903 - 2003) U.S. caricaturist. Referring to his caricatures. Remark ============================= Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he fe els, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) Spanish painter and sculptor. ==============================

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) British writer and poet. Heretics ============================= The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991) Polish-born U.S. writer. The New York Times Magazine, Interview ==============================