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Prints with quotes from famous Artists. The following collection of Artists
portraits and paintings has been created from our Philosophy
of Art webpage. Artists include: Michelangelo, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci,
Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Camille Corot, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley, Cezanne,
Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso.
We hope you find our selection of Renaissance, Impressionist and Erotic Fine Art Prints interesting and useful. Cheers!
Kids
Art: Artist as Child Pablo Picasso Quote 'Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.' (Pablo Picasso quote printed on Bright & Cute Kids Art Painting). |
Matisse
self-Portrait: Creativity & Courage of Art 'Creativity takes courage. ...' Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) Quote, Painting, Self-Portrait' (1906) |
Henri
Matisse Joy of Life Artwork Nature Quote Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) painting, 'Le bonheur de vivre' (The Joy of Life), with quote, 'When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. ...' |
Vincent
Van Gogh: Sower Setting Sun Painting Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, sower with setting sun' with quote, 'Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.' |
Vincent
Van Gogh Self Portrait Painting Quote Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, Self-Portrait in front of the Easel' (1888), with quote, 'The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.' |
Van
Gogh Cafe Art: Color like Enthusiasm Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, 'Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles at Night' (September 1888), with quote, 'I want to touch people with my art. ...' |
Van
Gogh sunflowers Painting: Quote on sun Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, 'Fifteen sunflowers in a Vase' (1888), with quote, 'How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun.' |
The
starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, 'The starry Night' (1889), with quote, 'I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.' |
Dutch
Artist Van Gogh Asylum Garden Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, 'Trees in the Asylum Garden' (1889), with quote, still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.' |
Van
Gogh Bandaged Ear: On suffering & Creation Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) painting, self Portrait with Bandaged Ear', with quote, 'As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I - ... - the power to create.' |
Renoir
Boating Party Landscape Prints Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) painting, 'the Luncheon of the Boating Party' (1881), with quote, 'There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, ...' |
Renoir
Impressionism Nude Bather Art Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) painting, seated Bather' (1883 - 1884), with quote, 'I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.' |
Pierre
Auguste Renoir The Louvre & Nature Photography of the Pierre Auguste Renoir palace of interest, 'the Louvre Museum, Paris' (2005), with quote, 'It took me twenty years to discover painting: ...above all, going to the Louvre.' |
Renoir
Oarsmen Painting Art & Beauty Quote Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919) painting, 'Oarsmen at Chatou' (1879), with quote, 'The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. ...' |
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Deception
Appearance: Aesop Quote Psyche Painting Berthe Morisot (1841 - 1895) painting, 'The Psyche' (1876), with Aesop quote, 'Appearances are often deceiving.' |
Berthe
Morisot: Art Expression & Experience Quote Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) painting, 'Butterfly Hunt' (1874), with quote, 'It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.' |
Cradle
Painting: Female Impressionist Art Morisot Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) painting, 'Le berceau' (The Cradle) (1872), with quote by Edouard Manet on her work, 'This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.' |
Monet
Water Lillies Painting: Color & Beauty Quote Claude Monet (1840-1926) painting, 'Water Lillies' (The Clouds) (1903), with quote, 'Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. ...Colour is my day-long obsession, my joy and torment.' |
Claude
Monet Impressionist sunrise: Torture of Art Claude Monet (1840-1926) painting, 'Impression, sunrise' (1872), with quote, 'I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.' |
Paul
Cezanne Nature Quote on Landscape Nude Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906), 'Nudes in Landscape' with quote, 'The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur ...of all future work.' |
Cezanne
Painting Famous Apple Astonish Paris Quote Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) painting, self Portrait', and quote, 'With an apple I will astonish Paris.' |
Paul
Cezanne Self Portrait: Emotion Artistic Quote Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906) painting, self Portrait', with quote, 'A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.' |
Alfred
Sisley Impressionist Painting: Nature Quote Alfred sisley painting, 'The Chemin de By through Woods at Roches-Courtaut, st. Martin's summer' (1880), with quote, 'I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.' |
Edgar
Degas Painting Difficulty of Art Quote Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) painting, 'Woman seated beside a Vase of Flowers' (1865), with quote, 'If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.' |
Edgar
Degas: Painter of Dancers & Movement Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) painting, 'The Rehearsal' (1873 - 78), with quote, 'People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.' |
Manet
Battle Painting: Art, Colour & Nature Quote Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883) painting, 'Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama' (1864), with quote, 'There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.' |
Impressionist
Artist Manet Olympia Nude Portrait Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883) painting, 'Olympia' (1863), with quote, 'You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, ...' |
French
Impressionism Manet: Painting, Work to Feel Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883) painting, 'Monet Painting in his Floating studio' (1874), with quote, 'I need to work to feel well.' |
Art
& Meaning of Architecture: Eiffel Tower Paris Gustave Eiffel (1832 - 1923) monument, 'The Eiffel Tower (photograph), Paris.' (2005), with Winston Churchill quote, 'We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.' |
Pissarro
Art of Impressions: Shepherdess Painting Camille Pissarro painting, 'The shepherdess' (Young Peasant Girl with a stick), with quote, 'We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of us seek to convey the impressions to others. ...' |
French
Artist Camille Pissarro Quote: How to Paint Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) painting, 'The Red Roofs' (1877), with quote, 'Don't paint bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing tones everywhere, ...' |
Corot
Boatman Painting Impressionist Quote Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) painting, 'The Boatman of Mortefontaine', with quote, 'Be guided by feelings alone... you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.' |
Artist
Camille Corot: Landscape with Figures Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) painting, 'La Toilette' (Landscape with Figures) with quote, 'Go to the country - The muse is in the woods.' |
Famous
Fantasy Quote: Goya Colossus Painting Francisco de Goya (1746 - 1828) painting, 'The Colossus', with quote, 'Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; ...she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.' |
Francisco
de Goya Self Portrait & Fantasy Quote Francisco de Goya (1746 - 1828) painting, self Portrait', with quote, 'Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; ...she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.' |
Dutch
Painter Rembrandt on Art & Atmosphere Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 - 1669) painting, 'Rembrandt and saskia in the scene of the Prodigal son in the Tavern' (1635), and quote, 'Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.' |
Rembrandt
Stone Bridge: Quote on God & Painting Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 - 1669) painting, 'Landscape with a stone Bridge' (1638), with quote, 'Painting is the grandchild of Nature. It is related to God.' |
Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn self Portrait Rembrandt painting, 'Portrait of the Artist at His Easel' (1660), with quote, 'I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. ...I just can't do it! ...' |
Rembrandt
Painting 'The Mill' & Nature Quote Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 - 1669) painting, 'The Mill' (1650), with quote, 'Choose only one master, Nature.' |
Peter
Paul Rubens Self Portrait Art & Quote Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640) painting, self Portrait with Isabella Brant' (1610), with quote, 'My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size ... has ever surpassed my courage.' |
Titian
Grand Master of Renaissance Art: Flora Titian painting, 'Flora' (1515), with Arthur Schopenhauer quote, 'We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait ...' |
Leonardo
da Vinci: Pleasure / Joy of Understanding Leonardo da Vinci (1492 - 1519) painting, 'Lady with an Ermine' (1483 - 90), with quote, 'The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.' |
Leonardo
da Vinci Mona Lisa: Simplicity Quote Leonardo da Vinci (1492 - 1519) painting, 'Mona Lisa' (1503 - 1504), with quote, 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.' |
Leonardo
da Vinci Self Portrait & Wise Quote Leonardo da Vinci (1492 - 1519) painting, self-Portrait' (1512), with quote, ' ...Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.' |
Leonardo
da Vinci John Baptist Painting Leonardo da Vinci (1492 - 1519) painting, 'John the Baptist', with quote, 'Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. ...' |
Madonna
by Leonardo da Vinci: Painter's Mind Quote Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) painting, 'The Dreyfus Madonna' (The Madonna with a Pomegranate) (1469), with quote, 'The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, ...' |
Leonardo
da Vinci Art Union of Spirit and Hand Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) painting, 'The Virgin and Child with saint Anne' (1510), with quote, 'Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.' |
Raphael
Madonna Painting: Pablo Picasso Quote Raphael (1483 - 1520) painting, 'Madonna dell Granduca by Titian' (1505), with quote by Pablo Picasso, 'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.' |
Milan
Pieta by Michelangelo: Marble not yet Carved Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) sculpture, 'Milan Pieta, Detail of Christ and Mary', with quote, 'The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. ...' |
Michelangelo
Art Philosophy Elevation of Painters Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475 - 1564) painting, 'The Cumaean sibyl', Sistine Chapel (1509 - 1512), with quote, 'Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, ...' |
Michelangelo
Artist Eccentricity Nude Painting Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) 'Ignudi' (nude / naked) painting, Sistine Chapel, with quote, 'Any artist ... who has nothing eccentric ... in his person, will never become a superior talent.' |
Michelangelo
Statue & Angel in Marble Quote Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) sculpture, 'Dying slave' (Statue) (1513 - 16), with quote, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' |
Michelangelo
Renaissance Artist Genius Quote Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) painting, 'The Libyan Sibyl', from the Sistine Chapel (1509 - 1512), with quote, 'Genius is eternal patience.' |
Michelangelo
Fresco Sistine Chapel Adam and Eve Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) painting, 'The Temptation of Adam and Eve', Fresco, Detail from The Sistine Chapel ceiling) with quote, 'Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.' |
David
Sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) masterpiece, 'David' (Statue), with quote, 'Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.' |
Michelangelo
Creation of Man & Quote on True Art Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) painting, 'Creation of Man' (Section of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling), with quote, 'True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.' |
Italian
Renaissance Michelangelo Divine Perfection Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) painting, 'Creation of the sun, Moon and Planets.' (from the Sistine Chapel), with quote, 'The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.' |
Intoxication of Art Nietzsche
and Bacchanal Painting Titian (1485 - 1576) painting, 'Bacchanal of the Andrians' (1523 - 1525), with Nietzsche quote, 'For art to exist, ...a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.' |
Diego Velazquez Painting: Einstein
Art and Freedom Diego Velazquez (1599 - 1660) painting, The Immaculate Conception (1619), with Albert Einstein quote, 'All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. ...' |
Italian Artist Correggio Painting
and Einstein Quote Correggio (1489 - 1534) painting, 'Portrait of a Young Man' (1525), with Einstein quote, 'One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life... .' |
Lucian Freud Erotic Quote on
Titian Nude Painting Titian (1485 - 1576) painting, 'Venus of Urbino' (1538), with Lucian Freud quote, 'The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter. |
Caravaggio Religious Art: Beauty
and the Illogical Caravaggio (1573 - 1610) painting, 'The Stigmatization of Saint Francis' (1596), with Nietzsche quote, 'Out of the illogical comes much good. ...' |
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