Painting Quotes
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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.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
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When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.
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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
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As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.
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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
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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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I love painting so much that nothing else matters.
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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.
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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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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
