Painting Quotes
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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.
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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.
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Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.
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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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I remember the first time I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and saw a Kerry James Marshall painting with black bodies in it on a museum wall... It strengthened me on a cellular level.
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Ninety percent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.
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It was thinking about Casagemas's death that started me painting in blue.
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I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
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My love affair with painting is bittersweet.
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I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
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A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience.
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My paintings are always images of my whole psychic makeup. You cannot deny yourself. You ask, am I painting myself? I'd been a swindler if I did otherwise. I'd be denying my existence as an artist. I've been also asked, what do you want to convey? And I say, nothing but my own nature.. .I am nothing but an optimist.
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
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Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.
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Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture - a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
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Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
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I think that it will be a great success, that all this painting of Edouard Manet, shortly after his death, so fresh, so vital, will electrify the 'Palais des Beaux Arts' in Paris, which is accustomed to dead art. It will be the revenge for so many rebuffs, but a revenge that the poor boy only in his grave.
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
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Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.
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I always start a painting with the sky.
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I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
