Painting Quotes
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I'd rather be home alone, painting.
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The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.
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Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.
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I've started painting much more freely, and faster. I think it's working in the theatre that did it. You know what the Glyndebourne scene-painters said about my The Magic Flute? They said they had to wear sunglasses to paint it.
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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
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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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I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: it's all over. Basic colors. Every plane is a plane and there is to be no representation.
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I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.
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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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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present.
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'Departure' also the title of a famous triptych painting of Max Beckmann, yes departure from the illusion of life toward the essential things that wait behind appearance.. .We must insist that Departure is not bound to a political trend, but is symbolic for all times.
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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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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make myself more a part of the most beautiful painting as possible. And enjoy it.
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I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.
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You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.
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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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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
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Eloquence is the painting of thought.
