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Pat Harrison

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Hello Ruth, you may find that the following site offers a few nice starters http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art.html

Angela Kingham

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I cannot remember where I found the basics of my quote...but I do remember going away and thinking about it...then writing what I thought suited me... But try this if you want a starting point: http://www.dionarchibald.com/ArtQuotes/artists.htm I think it started with reading somewhere statement that 'Music is the poetry of sound'... Then thinking about art one morning in the shower [ a place where I can truly get away from the world and think] it's thoughts and linking art as poetry... Colour is what me, my life and my art are about... Then I have a thing about people who take art too serious and see too many things in it... Art is for me is always the artists' impression on something getting expressed in a way that a photograph does not... Now if I'm guilty of plagiarism [a crime of intellectual theft, one which I abhor] do please let me know dear reader. I cannot for the life of me see why people bother with 'photorealism' in their art...sort of get the 'bledin' camera out and why waste your talents & efforts if all you want is to make it just like a photograph? And this historic art is only as good as that artists' impression! Likewise historically I can understand why there were portrait painters...but come on that was the technology of their day and it's in the past... But again get the 'bledin' camera out...sort of why waste your time on earth painting them when one click and its there in full photorealism!

Angela Kingham

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Ruth Dolan - 2012-11-01 11:13 AM I am always moved by strong quotes, the products of others' musings. Mel and Jedi both use quotes which I find wise, inspiring and thought provoking. Perhaps other people find or create quotes from time to time, and if so it might be worthwhile to post some here?
Gee, awe shucks, & thank you ma'am...I try! However The Memsahib would insist that I'm very trying! I desperately wish for all to use their minds and think... I can't get away from trying to inspire & motivate other's either... 25 years in the classroom does that to you!

Ruth Dolan

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Thank you all for responding, and for the website links....I have spent a fascinating 30 minutes or so looking at them. I particularly like this one..... Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_art4.html#TlFmXBme76pYw6V0.99
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I recall we had a stream on similiar lines a while back when I posted my favourite which is laminted and displayed above my 'art station' : Some work of noble note may yet be done Alfred,Lord Tennyson : Ulysses It sort of spurs me on in moments of despair!!

Michael Robinson

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Sometimes I get good phrases or quotes in my head when driving :-S A few time I recorded myself on the voices recorder so I could listen back and if it was really that good :-D

Dennis Spicer

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Sometimes I think this imagination stuff is overrated. At its worst it can lead to whimsy and self indulgence when it is seen as an end in itself. All artists use the imagination when conceiving a painting but it gets channelled to different ends. We live in a world that values emotion over facts which is why whimsy is so predominant in bad art. But this is a post about quotes so let me share a critics views on the paintings of the American realist painter Philip Pearlstein: “By the late 1960’s Pearlstein had committed to the “New Realism”, as stated in John Perrault’s manifesto: No stories; no allegories; no symbols. No hidden meanings; no obvious meanings. No philosophy, religion, or psychology. No jokes. No political content. No illustration. No fantasy or imagination; no dreams; no poetry.” Remember these points are all positive to him . The point is the artwork exists as an object in itself, and does not refer to anything else outside the frame, something that I very much believe.

Michael Robinson

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Somebody told me, watching you working makes it look so effortless...

Michael Robinson

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What ever I do in my life, I call it work. Even when I'm looking after my little daughter I call it a hard work. She's two... http://www.njdeco.co.uk/dulwich.html

Mick Saunders

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Quotes are a bit of fun but I find that my desire to paint is the only inspiration I need, not the words of others.  I think the most interesting artistic quote is from Michael Angelo when he said words along the lines that every block of stone is an angel waiting to be freed.  Note, I said words along the lines. And my attribution to MA may be incorrect.BestMick

Angela Kingham

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But that bledin' angel never helps in sweeping up the bits on the studio floor... Ungrateful swine!
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Inspirational words - ah yes; Auf dieser Welt gibt es kein Glueck verschenkt; alles muss schwer erkaempft werden; roughly translated, in this world we are sent no luck; all must struggle hard....<div> </div><div>Now who said that......   Three guesses.....</div>
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