Painting Quotes
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A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
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Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.
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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
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I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.
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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
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If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
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When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.
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I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.
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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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Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
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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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My love affair with painting is bittersweet.
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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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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 wanted to burn down the 'École de Beaux Arts' with my cobalts and vermilions and I wanted to express my feelings with my brushes without troubling what painting was like before me.. .Life and me, me and life.
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Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.
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Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
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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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Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
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I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined, but I'm not patient.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
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I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.
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Studies in painting: Non. He learned to express himself by means of art in the same way as the child learns to talk. No teaching is needed for the one who is born an artist, and even the expression 'self-taught' is a phony, he thinks.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
