Painting Quotes
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Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.
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People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
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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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You don't hire Kehinde Wiley to have a tame painting.
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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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I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.
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The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.
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I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
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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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For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.
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Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?
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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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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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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
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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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If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.
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At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
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The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.
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For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.
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My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.
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There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.
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Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.
