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"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
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." - Paul Klee
"The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... he does it without destroying something else." - George Plimpton
"Art is meant to disturb, science reassures." - Georges Braque
(from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 5th Edition, 1999)
Marja-Leena | 10/11/2004 | 3 comments
themes: Being an Artist, Recently
I especially like the Klee quote.
Don't know whether I agree with Plimpton - depends whether you count in folk like some of the Young Brits and the graffiti-ists!
Anna, you are right - did not think of them - though maybe Plimpton doesn't call that art?
Klee really speaks for me too, in many ways, Amy!