Painting Quotes
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Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
Georges Seurat
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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Ray Bradbury
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I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.'
James Rosenquist
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Morris Louis and I were interested in how Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler famous for her soak-painting technique were using paint. Of necessity we had to get more interested in the stuff of painting. We talked a lot about whether to size the painting or not to size, how to mix up paint.
Kenneth Noland
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But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Marie Windsor
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My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.
Kathryn Bigelow
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I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
David LaChapelle
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The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'
Gavin Hood
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I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.
Debby Ryan
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Edgar Degas
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
Ralph Bakshi
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When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.
Wayne Thiebaud
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Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.
Barnett Newman
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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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I've been painting and making things since I was little.
Jemima Kirke
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Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.
Rita Mae Brown
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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
Barnett Newman
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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
Barnett Newman
