Painting Quotes
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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I really prize and love great painting.
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
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..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..
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The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
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I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.
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It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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I love to play with textures and colors. I mix them together like I would in a painting.
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Only what can be seen there in the painting is there.. .What you see is what you see.
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I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.
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Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.
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I've been painting since I was a kid.
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It took me a long time to understand my water lilies.. .I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day.. .And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.
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I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.
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'..learn to draw: that's where most of you Troyon's pupils are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you can never learn to much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and make studies and above all develop them..' Monet is quoting in his letter Troyon, a friend of Boudin in Paris
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I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
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All gardening is landscape painting.
