Painting Quotes
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.
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The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
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I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
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Of all arts, painting indisputably requires the greatest victim.
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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
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Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.
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A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning for painting. I carefully and deliberately destroyed a part of my past.
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Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
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In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
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You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.
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If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
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Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart.
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I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.
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It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.
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Clement Greenberg talked about the ideas or possibilities of painting in his - I think -, 'After Abstract Expressionism' article, and he allows a blank canvas to be an idea for a painting. It might not be a
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Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.
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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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A painting that is well composed is half finished.
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Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.
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I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
