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And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.
Author:
Minoru Yamasaki
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
Author:
Andrew Wyeth
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I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
Author:
Peter Wright
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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
Author:
Peter Wright
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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
Author:
Peter Wright
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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
Author:
E. Wilson
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
Author:
Pharrell Williams
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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
Author:
Kit Williams
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In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
Author:
Kit Williams
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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
Author:
William Wiley
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I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.
Author:
William Wiley
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I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
Author:
Kim Weston
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Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
Author:
Edward Weston
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I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
Author:
Chris Ware
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A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
Author:
Lila Wallace
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Author:
Voltaire
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
Author:
Maurice Vlaminck
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
Author:
Maurice Vlaminck
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Author:
Mao Tung
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
Author:
Mark Tobey
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I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Author:
Twyla Tharp
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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Author:
Yves Tanguy
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
Author:
Patricia Sun
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Author:
Harriet Stowe
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
Author:
Tom Stoppard
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Author:
Howard Stern
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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
Author:
Frank Stella
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When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
Author:
Frank Stella
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
Author:
Frank Stella
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But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Author:
Frank Stella
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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
Author:
Frank Stella
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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
Author:
Alfred Sisley
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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Author:
Herbert Simon
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I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Author:
George Shaw
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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
Author:
William Scott
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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
Author:
William Scott
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
Author:
William Scott
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A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Author:
Paul Scofield
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
Author:
Arnold Schoenberg
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A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
Author:
John Sargent
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The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
Author:
Robert Ryan
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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
Author:
John Ruskin
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
Author:
Mark Rothko
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Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.
Author:
Billy Rose
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I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Author:
Andy Rooney
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I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.
Author:
Theodore Robinson
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
Author:
J. Roberts
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Author:
Bridget Riley
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
Author:
Ad Reinhardt
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
Author:
Ad Reinhardt
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But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
Author:
Sydney Pollack
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Author:
Plutarch
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
Author:
Steven Pinker
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Author:
William Phelps
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
Author:
Jack Paar
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Author:
Patton Oswalt
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In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
Author:
John O'Neill
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Author:
Georgia O'Keeffe
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Painting is a hobby for me.
Author:
Renee O'Connor
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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Author:
Conor Oberst
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I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
Author:
Kenneth Noland
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
Author:
Jason Newsted
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I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
Author:
Barnett Newman
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
Author:
Robert Musil
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
Author:
Martin Mull
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Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
Author:
Martin Mull
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Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Author:
Robert Motherwell
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If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
Author:
Grandma Moses
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Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Author:
Grandma Moses
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
Author:
Viggo Mortensen
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
Author:
Ikue Mori
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Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
Author:
Cleo Moore
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The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
Author:
James Mooney
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Author:
Claude Monet
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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
Author:
Joni Mitchell
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Author:
Joan Miro
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Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
Author:
Rebecca Miller
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
Author:
Alice Miller
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
Author:
John Milius
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
Author:
Michelangelo
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I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.
Author:
Robert Merrill
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Author:
Edouard Manet
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Author:
Andre Malraux
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To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
Author:
Andre Malraux
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You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
Author:
John Malkovich
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Writing and Painting are the same for me.
Author:
Peter Malkin
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Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
Author:
Kazimir Malevich
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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.
Author:
Janet Malcolm
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
Author:
Rene Magritte
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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
Author:
Roy Lichtenstein
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I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
Author:
Roy Lichtenstein
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Author:
Roy Lichtenstein
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Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
Author:
Roy Lichtenstein
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Author:
Jack Levine
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Author:
Fernand Leger
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Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
Author:
Jennifer Lawrence
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If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.
Author:
Edwin Landseer
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
Author:
Neil LaBute
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I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
Author:
Sylvia Kristel
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I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
Author:
John Kricfalusi
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You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.
Author:
John Kricfalusi
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People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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No painting can tell the truth of a single instant; no snapshot can do anything else.
Author:
John Kouwenhoven
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
Author:
Kenneth Koch
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I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
Author:
Kenneth Koch
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I love painting.
Author:
Heidi Klum
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The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across?
Author:
Franz Kline
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Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
Author:
Klaus Kinski
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The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Author:
Thomas Kinkade
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I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.
Author:
Thomas Kinkade
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
Author:
Nancy Kerrigan
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All gardening is landscape painting.
Author:
William Kent
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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
Author:
Corita Kent
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
Author:
Jackie Kennedy
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My painting carries with it the message of pain.
Author:
Frida Kahlo
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Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
Author:
Donald Judd
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Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
Author:
Donald Judd
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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
Author:
Donald Judd
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Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Author:
Chuck Jones
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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Author:
Jasper Johns
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Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
Author:
Jasper Johns
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You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.
Author:
Joseph Jarman
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When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
Author:
Michael Ironside
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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
Author:
Robert Indiana
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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
Author:
Robert Indiana
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When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
Author:
Julio Iglesias
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My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
Author:
John Hurt
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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Author:
Robert Hughes
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Author:
Edward Hopper
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Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
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Edward Hopper
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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Author:
Edward Hopper
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If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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Brad Holland
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In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork.
Author:
Brad Holland
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I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
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William Hogarth
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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Hans Hofmann
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A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
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Howard Hodgkin
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When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
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Howard Hodgkin
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Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
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Robyn Hitchcock
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Sunlight is painting.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
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Julie Harris
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I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
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Keith Haring
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Painting and writing are solitary arts.
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Conrad Hall
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Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
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Philip Guston
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I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
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Philip Guston
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The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.
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Philip Guston
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Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
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Philip Guston
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Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.
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Philip Guston
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In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
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Philip Guston
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Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
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Philip Guston
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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John Guare
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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
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Michael Graves
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I paint because it hurts not to. Pain is in the word painting.
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Marta Gottfried
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Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
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Nelson Goodman
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Edmond Goncourt
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
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Vincent Gogh
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Vincent Gogh
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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
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Caspar Friedrich
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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Milton Friedman
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Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
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Lucian Freud
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I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
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Lucian Freud
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When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.
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Lucian Freud
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
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Dawn French
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
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James Franco
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Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.
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Jodie Foster
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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Dan Fogelberg
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Author:
Henry Flynt
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In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
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Henry Flynt
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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Minnie Fiske
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But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.
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Howard Finster
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Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.
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Timothy Findley
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
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Bryan Ferry
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
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Morton Feldman
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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.
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John Erskine
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Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
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Max Ernst
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Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
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Sergei Eisenstein
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For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.
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Sergei Eisenstein
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Language is much closer to film than painting is.
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Sergei Eisenstein
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I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.
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George Eads
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I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.
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John Dyer
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My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
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John Dyer
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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.
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John Dyer
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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Albrecht Durer
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No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
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Marguerite Duras
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Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.
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Minnie Driver
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I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
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Richard Donner
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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.
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Bill Dixon
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
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Otto Dix
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
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Otto Dix
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Otto Dix
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Denis Diderot
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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Charles Dickens
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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Jackie DeShannon
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The substance of painting is light.
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Andre Derain
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So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
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Nigel Dennis
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Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.
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Maurice Denis
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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Catherine Deneuve
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Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
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Robert Delaunay
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Nature engenders the science of painting.
Author:
Robert Delaunay
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It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
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Robert Delaunay
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Painting is by nature a luminous language.
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Robert Delaunay
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Edgar Degas
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Edgar Degas
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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Mac Davis
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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.
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Jonathan Davis
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Salvador Dali
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Every song is like a painting.
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Dick Dale
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But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
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Tony Curtis
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Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
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Gustave Courbet
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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
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Gustave Courbet
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It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.
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Alice Cooper
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Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
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Phil Collins
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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
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Jonathan Coe
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.
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Chuck Close
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I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.
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Les Claypool
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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
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Winston Churchill
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Kate Chopin
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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
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William Chase
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
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Marc Chagall
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Paul Cezanne
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I have sworn to die painting.
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Paul Cezanne
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I want to die painting.
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Paul Cezanne
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Author:
Paul Cezanne
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Author:
Paul Cezanne
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Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
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Paul Cezanne
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It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
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Aime Cesaire
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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.
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Rosanne Cash
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Truman Capote
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I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
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Max Cannon
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It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
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Albert Camus
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Lord Byron
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When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
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Lindsey Buckingham
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Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.
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Lindsey Buckingham
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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Gavin Bryars
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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Jean Bruyere
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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.
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Georges Braque
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Embracing the half-light of what we do not know shapes their assemblies into art, focusing the canvas of existence with strokes starved of perfection yet diving untamed through wonder.
Author:
Elise Mauritius
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
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David Bowie
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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
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Pierre Bonnard
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You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Author:
Pierre Bonnard
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Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
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Giotto Bondone
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Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.
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Maurice Blanchot
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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William Blake
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.
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Jacqueline Bisset
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Harrison Birtwistle
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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Theodore Bikel
