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“A painting is a poem without words” – Horace

2. „Amor Vincit Omnia” (Love conquers all). – Caravaggio

3. "All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish
trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better
than to follow nature." - Caravaggio

4. „ I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” Vincent van Gogh

5. “One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has
light in it.” - Vincent van Gogh

6. “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to

understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” ~ Claude Monet

7. „Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

8. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” ~ Salvador Dali

9. “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a
monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.” ~
Pablo Picasso

10. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life.” ~ Pablo Picasso

11. “The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement,
the thrill of your creation lasts.” ~ Henry Moore

12. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ~ Degas

13. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” ~ Auguste Rodin
14. “If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint,
boy, and that voice will be silenced.” ~ Vincent van Gogh

15. „If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful
at all.” ~ Michelangelo

16. “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

17. “Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” Claude Monet

18. “I don't say everything, but I paint everything.” Pablo Picasso

19. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels
tenderly.'” Vincent Van Gogh

20. „Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” Pablo Picasso

21. “Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” Edgar
Degas

22. “Inspiration does exist but it must find you working.” Pablo Picasso

23. “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others
who, thanks to their art and talent, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso

24. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” Michelangelo
25. "If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of
what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul."Paul Cezanne