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Famous Art Quotes

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” 

“To be an artist is to believe in life.”

Henry Moore

“I am seeking. I am striving.

I am in it with all my heart.”

Vincent van Gogh

Pablo Picasso 

“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.” Rene Magritte

“There is no must in art because art is free.” 

Wassily Kandinsky

“Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.”

John Olsen
 

“Great art picks up where

nature ends.” 

Marc Chagall

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” Oscar Wilde

“Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.”

Marc Chagall

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