Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. -- Marcel Duchamp
The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes though
and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem....
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
-- Marcel Duchamp...
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
-- Henry Moore...
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle .
. . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting wi...
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
-- Henry Moore...
There is a right physical size for every idea. -- Henry Moore
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.
It releases tension needed for his work. -- Henry Moore...
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
-- Don Marqui...

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