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21 June 2010
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Sunday Telegraph, (1964), Bacon, Francis (artist) (1909 - 1992) Irish-born expressionist painter
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of peresentation induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography (1976) Fonteyn, Margot (1919 - 1991) English dancer
A hundred canvasses and seven sons He left, and never got a likeness once.
'Epitaph on a Portrait Painter' Bray, John Jefferson (1912 - 19995) Australian Lawyer and poet
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
The New Spirit (1890) Ellis, Havelock (1859 - 1039) English sexologist and essayist
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
The World of Marcel Duchamp (1966) Duchamp, Marcel (1887 - 1968) French-born US artist
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they
give.
Letters and Social Aims (1875) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803 - 1882) US poet, essayist, transcendentalist and teacher
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or above his handwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) Joyce, James (1882 - 1941) Irish writer
The artist has a special task and duty - the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Attr. Mumford, Lewis (1895 - 1990) US sociologist and writer
Painting is ablind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
In Jaen Cocteau, 'Journals (1929), 'Childhood'
I've never been in there [the Louvre]….but there are only three things to see, and I've seen colour reproductions of all of them.
In Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ross, Harold W (1892 - 1951) US Editor
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
The Tow Paths (1859)