Georges Braque Quotes
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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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.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?
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I thought that the painter had no right to paint so unclearly.. ..(but) the first faint doubt as to the importance of an 'object' as the necessary element in painting.
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It happens that all those who have something of mine, painting, mobile, or static statue, say that it makes them very happy. For example, children adore mobile statues and understand their meaning immediately. I have seen children, here in France, in America or in Great Britain, run and shout with joy in my exhibitions. They like it instinctively.
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There's no indication or hint about the material world in my painting. No, I don't paint about the world. Everybody else is painting about the world. That's enough.
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I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.
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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
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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.
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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.
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The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
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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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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
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Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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There's a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don't enjoy. There's nothing to do.
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A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
