Painting Quotes
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
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When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative.
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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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As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.
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Bernard Leach talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."
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No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
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Painting is so much more than the materials.
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I did painting before I did photography.
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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.
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I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
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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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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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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..
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A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
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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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Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.
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My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.
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(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
