Muralist

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"At the very moment when my ego is unprooted and freed of intellectual activities and values, the realization of what is still unknown and uncreated, the silent 'non-form' unity emerges, appearing as childish schizophrenia. The indefinable beginning takes form"

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Karel Appel· b. 1921View quote →

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Banksy

contemporary art

"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

🇨🇦Philip Guston

abstract expressionism

"I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum."

Eugène Delacroix

🇫🇷Eugène Delacroix

"Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume."

Nicholas Roerich

Nicholas Roerich

"Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds."

Fernand Léger

🇫🇷Fernand Léger

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

Lawrence Weiner

🇺🇸Lawrence Weiner

"I do not mind objects, but I do not care to make them."

🇬🇧Bridget Riley

"For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance."

🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

theatre of the absurd

"Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical."

"I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term "artist" rather embarrassing."

Sol LeWitt

🇺🇸Sol LeWitt

"Sol LeWitt's obituary in the New York Times"

Wifredo Lam

🇫🇷Wifredo Lam

"I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country but by thoroughly expressing the Negro spirit, the beauty of the art of the blacks."

abstract expressionism

"A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again."

🇺🇸Keith Haring

"The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation."

Tove Jansson

🇸🇪Tove Jansson

"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected."

Ferdinand Hodler

🇨🇭Ferdinand Hodler

Notable Quotes

"I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now."

— M. C. Escher, b. 1898View →

"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."

— Banksy, b. 1973View →

"The craft is finding a decent drainpipe to get access to the site as much as it is in the art... Van Gogh used short, stumpy brush strokes to convey his insanity - I use short, thin ledges above mainline train tracks." — Evening Post, 2004"

— Banksy, b. 1973View →

"People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot."

— Banksy, b. 1973View →

"Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter."

— Eugène Delacroix, b. 1798View →

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