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Take me, I am the drug.

Salvador Dalí

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Topic

Power of art Drugs Art

Author

Salvador Dalí

Source

Dalí by Dalí

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Unclear

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Dalí, Salvador. Dalí by Dalí. Harry N. Abrams, 1970.

Life is what we make of it. Always has been, always will be.

Grandma Moses

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Topic

Agency Personal responsibility Life

Author

Grandma Moses

Source

Grandma Moses: My Life's History

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Grandma Moses. Grandma Moses: My Life's History, edited by Otto Kallir. Harper & Brothers, 1951.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Topic

Artistic process Creativity Painting Art

Author

Jackson Pollock

Source

Possibilities

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pollock, Jackson. "My Painting." Possibilities, no. 1, Winter 1947-1948, p. 79.

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

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Topic

Creativity Taking risks Courage

Speaker

Henri Matisse

Language

French

Time

20th century

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Citation

Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Artist to Artist: Inspiration & Advice from Artists Past & Present, written by Clint Brown. Jackson Creek Press, 1998.

Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

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Topic

Vulnerability Relationships

Speaker

Mickalene Thomas

Source

Complex

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thomas, Mickalene. Interviewed by Leigh Silver. Complex, 1 Oct. 2014, reprinted at https://www.complex.com/style/2014/10/interview-mickalene-thomas.

Whom one gets into bed with is no light matter.

Paul Gauguin

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Topic

Sex

Author

Paul Gauguin

Source

Journals of Paul Gauguin

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Gauguin, Paul. Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Indiana University Press, 1958, p. 18.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Topic

Artists Art market

Author

Andy Warhol

Source

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 10.

I think the peasant girl is more beautiful than a lady, in her dusty, patched blue skirt and bodice, which get the most delicate hues from weather, wind, and sun. But if she puts on a lady's dress, she loses her peculiar charm.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Topic

Beautiful women Beauty

Author

Vincent Van Gogh

Source

Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Dutch

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 30 Apr. 1885.

Current Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.

Pablo Picasso

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Topic

Success Self-indulgence Originality

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Source

Vogue

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

French

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

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Topic

Self-discovery Self-expression Artistic expression Painting Art

Speaker

Jackson Pollock

Source

Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Pollock, Jackson. Interviewed by Selden Rodman. c. 1956.

I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature.

Claude Monet

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Topic

Man and nature Nature

Speaker

Claude Monet

Source

The Artist in His Studio

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Monet, Claude. The Artist in His Studio, written by Alexander Liberman. Viking Press, 1960.

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Topic

Starving artist Art market Art

Author

Vincent Van Gogh

Source

Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

French

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 25 Oct. 1888.

Current Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

Art has always been the raft on to which we climb to save our sanity.

Dorothea Tanning

Quoted in Salon

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Topic

Art as therapy Purpose of art Art

Speaker

Dorothea Tanning

Source

Salon

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tanning, Dorothea. Interviewed by John Glassing. Salon, 11 Feb. 2002, https://www.salon.com/2002/02/11/tanning/.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Alice Neel

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Topic

Life experience Caveats

Author

Alice Neel

Source

Alice Neel: Black and White

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Neel, Alice. Alice Neel: Black and White. c. 1984.

Resemblance reproduces the formal aspect of objects, but neglects their spirit; truth shows the spirit and substance in like perfection.

Jing Hao

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Topic

Painting

Author

Jing Hao

Source

Notes on Brushwork

Language

Chinese

Time

925 920s 10th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.

Current Citation

Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television—you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Topic

Movies

Author

Andy Warhol

Source

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

Renoir painted his whole life long, down to his very last day. He painted a little still life of fruit, in bed, the day before he died.

Henri Matisse

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Topic

Self-discipline Dedication Hard work

Speaker

Henri Matisse

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Matisse, Henri. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview. Interviewed by Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, translated by Chris Miller. Getty Publications, 2013, p. 90.

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.

Georges Braque

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Topic

Art and science Purpose of art Art Science

Author

Georges Braque

Source

Journals of Georges Braque

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Braque, Georges. Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 [Day and Night. Notebooks 1917-1952]. Gallimard, 1952.

Current Citation

Braque, Georges. Illustrated Notebooks: 1917-1955, translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, 1971.

Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Topic

Self-acceptance Art as therapy Painting Art

Speaker

Robert Rauschenberg

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

Draw lines, young man, many lines, from memory or from nature; it is in this way that you will become a good artist.

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

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Topic

Artistic development Practice Art

Speaker

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Source

Degas

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominque. Quoted in Degas, written by Keith Roberts. Phaidon Press, 1982, p. 7.