Painting Quotes
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You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness to saying, "Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting."
Chris Gardner
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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented
Willem de Kooning
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But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
Bryan Ferry
Roxy Music
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Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
Banksy
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A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
Edgar Degas
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When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.
Markus Zusak
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
Pablo Picasso
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Dear Does = Theo van Doesburg , thank you for your letter.. .I was glad to know that in principle you are in favour of the diamond hanging Mondrian's painting, he made in 1919, hanging in a rhombus and I think that in practice you will approve of this method for some of my things. You look at the thing painting itself, and not only the outward appearance..
Piet Mondrian
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Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.
Phil Collins
Genesis
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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.
Kenneth Koch
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I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
Francis Bacon
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If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
Daniel H. Pink
