Painting Quotes
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The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.
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Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
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In my painting, negative space is never arbitrary. (I believe lithographs to be colored marks printed on a ground – the paper and the measure of the ground and the marks are to be considered of equal importance). In my painting, the painting is the subject rather than the subject the painting.
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Painting is an eye, a blinded eye that continues to see, and sees what blinds it.. ..this tiny little thing, which is nothing, which dominates life.
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
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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.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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I started painting when I was in high school.
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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Painting completed my life.
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Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.
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Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.
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One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.
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I'd rather be home alone, painting.
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
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Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.
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Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.
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There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
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You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.
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My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.
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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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The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.
