Painting Quotes
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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
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An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
Pablo Picasso
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...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
Edmundo Desnoes
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An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.
W. H. Auden
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Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.
Blaise Pascal
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
Chitra Ganesh
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the painting 'Yard with Lunatics' shows ..a yard with lunatics, and two of them fighting completely naked while their warder beats them, and others in sacks; (it is a scene I witnessed at first hand in Zaragoza).
Francisco Goya
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Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.
Dave McKean
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When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
Walter Darby Bannard
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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Pablo Picasso
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For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.
Yusaku Maezawa
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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.
Ali Banisadr
