Painting Quotes
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
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Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.
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You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
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The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars.
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Each painting contains so much suffering.
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If a painting has a soulful effect on the viewer, if it puts his mind into a soulful mood, then it has fulfilled the first requirement of a work of art. However bad it might be in drawing, color, handling, etc.
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.
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The real subject of every painting is light.
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Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.
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I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.
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I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
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Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.
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When I am painting, driven by lively tensions, I want to express what’s going on in me. When that tension has ceased, when the life in me became visible, then something happened which had to happen. Over and over again you experience a work which is created in this way. What happened? It is hard to say, because it was not my mind that led but the inner desire that revealed its inner life.
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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.
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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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My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.
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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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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.
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It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.
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Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?
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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
