Painting Quotes
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I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.
M. Ward
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We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.
Jorge M. Perez
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I wanted more control. Painting was the only way to do it yourself. Movies require too many people. You can have an auteur vision but there’s a lot of money involved. And there’s a lot of people telling you what to do.
Donald Sultan
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When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.
Peter Max
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The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
Odd Nerdrum
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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.
Francis Bacon
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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.
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews Band
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Value differences in painting always cut in; color differences always go side by side. Laterally. Color differences can illustrate three dimensional form, but using color in terms of hue belongs more properly to painting than modelling with dark and light as in sculpting does.
Kenneth Noland
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The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)
Marshall McLuhan
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
Auguste Renoir
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What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Auguste Renoir
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The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
Cheng Man-ch'ing
