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click here to discuss this painting by **Arcimboldo**

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. -E E Cummings Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. ~Bernard Baruch I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~Albert Einstein There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. ~Charles Proteus Steinmetz Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Anthony Robbins He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever. chinese proverb
 * Wisdom is the daughter of experience. -Leonardo Da Vinci**

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.


 * Andrew Wyeth :::

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.


 * M.C. Escher :::

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.


 * Giorgio Morandi :::

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.


 * Joseph Beuys :::

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.


 * Alice Neel :::

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.


 * Cy Twombly :::

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.


 * James McNeill Whistler :::

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.


 * Eckhart Tolle :::

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.


 * Euan Uglow :::

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.


 * Diego Rivera :::

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.


 * Andrew Wyeth :::

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.


 * M.C. Escher :::

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.


 * Giorgio Morandi :::

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.


 * William Dobell :::

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.


 * Banksy :::

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.


 * Giorgio de Chirico :::

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.


 * John Lennon :::

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.


 * Bono :::

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.


 * Henry Moore :::

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.


 * Renoir :::

//Mark Rothko// //No. 3/No. 13 (Magenta, Black, Green on Orange),// 1949, 85 3/8" x 65" (216.5 x 164.8 cm), oil on canvas, [|Museum of Modern Art]. An example of Rothko's late period.

I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.


 * Mark Rothko :::

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.


 * Damien Hirst :::

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.


 * Rumi :::

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.


 * Michelangelo :::

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.


 * Jean Michel Basquiat :::