Painting Quotes
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There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.
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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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I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.
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I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.
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I really like the language of painting.
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I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
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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.
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There are no rules in painting and.. ..the oppression, or servile obligation, of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the Young who profess this very difficult art that approaches the divine more than any other.
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
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If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.
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I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
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The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
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I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
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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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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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I painted a painting called 'Milk River' in 1963 Cows don't give milk if they don't have grass and water Tremendous meaning of that is that painters can't give anything to the observer. People get what they need from a painting. The painter need not die because of responsibility. When you have inspiration and represent inspirationThe observer makes the painting.
