Art related - Quote Others or be Quoted.

"An artist lies to reach another kind of truth." – Pablo Picasso

"When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished." - Pierre Auguste Renoir

“When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.” - Deepak Chopra

"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real." - Lucian Freud [Works for me. Try repeating the same word 50 times. It's not the same :]

“You can't imagine what you're missing, when you're missing your imagination.” - ?

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual." - Vladimir Nabokov

"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman" - Guillaume Apollinaire

"All good ideas arrive by chance." - Max Ernst

"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized." - Adolf Hitler
(I disagree, I kind of believe the opposite)

|XOD|

Nice, i especially like the Guillaume and Max quote (i agree with you on the Hitler one - he always did see things backwards)

I like Mr. Renoir's quote, hehe! >;D And the unknown origin one as well. <:)
|XOD|

-"the job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery" -Francis Bacon
-"great art picks up where nature ends" -Mark Chagall
-"drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad" -Salvador Dali
-"when i paint, the sea roars. others just splash about in the bath" -Salvador Dali
-"Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it" - Salvador Dali
-"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection" -Michelangelo