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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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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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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'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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.
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You have got to be able to picture side by side everything Matisse and I were doing at that time. No one has ever looked at Matisse's painting more carefully than I; and no one has looked at mine more carefully than he.
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
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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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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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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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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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The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.
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Well, painting today certainly seems very vibrant, very alive, very exiting. Five or six of my contemporaries around New York are doing very vital work, and the direction that painting seems to be taken here – is – away from the easel – into some sort, some kind of wall, wall painting...
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In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.
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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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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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The new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
