Georges Braque Quotes
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
Georges Braque
Quotes to Explore
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Captain Beefheart
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Rachel Kushner
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca
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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
Billy Childish
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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
Carolina Herrera
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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.
Donald Judd
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For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.
Linda Perry
4 Non Blondes
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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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.
Philip Guston
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There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.
Kehinde Wiley
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
Vincent Van Gogh
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He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences.
Clifford D. Simak
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There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
Loretta Lynn
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
Mahalia Jackson
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A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
Georges Braque
