{"id":248,"date":"2010-12-06T17:26:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2010-12-06T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:26:53","slug":"quotes-about-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Quotes about art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.<br \/>                  <b>Pablo Picasso<\/b><\/p>\n<p>-Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.<br \/>                  <b><\/b><br \/>-Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.<\/p>\n<p>-Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.<\/p>\n<p>-Everything you can imagine is real.<\/p>\n<p>-God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.<\/p>\n<p>-I don&#8217;t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that&#8217;s a luxury I cannot afford.<\/p>\n<p>-No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It&#8217;s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>-Painting is a blind man&#8217;s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.<\/p>\n<p>-The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider&#8217;s web.<\/p>\n<p>-We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.<br \/><b>Pablo Picasso<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When I was the age of these children could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.<br \/><b>Pablo Picasso<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.<br \/><b>Robert Bresson<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso -Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. -Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -Everything you can imagine is real. -God is really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quotes about art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rodsawatsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}