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“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

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Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.”

Littles Would Be Next Painting Masterpiece Dissatisfaction

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.”

Men Seems Certain Painting Masters Paint Old Man Masterpiece

Author:Alex Katz

“At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto, and it needed a million dollars from the Treasury Board. "Is that Lotto-Quebec or Lotto-Canada?" I joked, but I got the message, and the National Gallery got the painting.”

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Author:Jean Chretien

“You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.”

Want Painting Masterpiece

Author:Will Ferrell

“When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.”

Whole Painting Bunch Painter Crafts Masterpiece

Author:Walter Mosley

“Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.”

Successful Painting Categories Masterpiece Kitsch

Book:Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or

Source: Between Nihilism and Faith: A Commentary on Either/Or

“Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!”

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Author:Al Michaels