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		People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meredith Ostrom
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Damian Loeb
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary Hume
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Egon Schiele is my favorite painter. There's just something about art - photography, painting, music, plays - whatever you see, sometimes there's a gut reaction that's more important or more visceral than what your brain is thinking about. You can't explain that reaction. It's like what happens when you fall in love.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Albert Hammond, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Irving Stone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Larry Mullen, Jr.
			
			
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		I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wade Guyton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				M. Night Shyamalan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		All this could be enough - we would leave an Impressionist painting at this stage - probably much earlier - and leave it possibly with great satisfaction.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Greenaway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Hondros
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. J. Harvey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kehinde Wiley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ursula Vernon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Denis Diderot
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There's always been a trend toward simpler painting and it was bound to happen one way or another. Whenever painting gets complicated, like Abstract Expressionism, or surrealism, there's going to be someone who's not painting complicated paintings, someone who's trying to simplify...
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Stella
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Walsh