Painting Quotes
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You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
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I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
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What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.
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I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.
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The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
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Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.
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Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
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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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I've been painting since I was a kid.
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My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.
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The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
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Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.
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Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.
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Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
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I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
