Painting Quotes
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Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
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If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.
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Painting, I think it's like jazz.
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My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.
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I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
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I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.
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When you are working, you are so far away and so absorbed, it's inevitable that you fall into a vacuum when you stop.. ..every time when I finish a painting, I always have to wait to get my strength back before I can begin another.
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Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.
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A gymnast is a brush in an artist’s hand while the coach is the artist creating a painting with a brush. Then, the gymnast slowly becomes an artist in her own right. It’s a transformation. I enjoy both.
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The free placement of the means of expression is a privilege enjoyed exclusively by painting different opinion with Theo van Doesburg . The sister arts, sculpture and architecture, are more restricted in this respect. The other arts enjoy even less scope in their employment of the means of expression.
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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.
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I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.
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You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
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The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.
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Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
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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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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
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You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
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While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
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Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.
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I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.
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Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
