Painting Quotes
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I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
Mary Ellen Mark
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At that time c. 1904 – 1905 I tried, by means of lines and by distribution of mottled points of colours in his tempera painting on paper: 'Russian Beauty in a Landscape', 1905 to express the musical spirit of Russia. Other pictures of that period reflected the contradictions and later the eccentricities of Russia.
Wassily Kandinsky
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There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.
Dave Gahan
Depeche Mode
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.
Hans Arp
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For the historian everything begins and ends with time, a mathematical, godlike time, a notion easily mocked, time external to men, 'exogenous,' as economists would say, pushing men, forcing them, and painting their own individual times the same color: it is, indeed, the imperious time of the world.
Fernand Braudel
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I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting.
Pablo Picasso
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There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all
Zooey Deschanel
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The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
Carolina Herrera
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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
Kit Williams
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If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
Keith Haring
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
Barnett Newman
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All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born, I have confidence in it Arp refers to 'automatic painting'. I do not think about it. The forms arrive pleasant, or strange, hostile, inexplicable, mute, or drowsy. They are born from themselves. It seems to me as if all I do is move my hands.
Jean Arp
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
Auguste Renoir
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi
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People say, 'What a discipline, painting so much.' I say, 'No, I love it.' Nothing amuses me as much as my work. To have discipline would be not to paint.
Fernando Botero
