Painting Quotes
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I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.
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I paint what I think, not what I see.
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In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
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For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.
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The first thing to change in my painting was the color c. 1908-09. I forsook natural color for pure color. I had come to feel that the colors of nature cannot be reproduced on canvas. Instinctively I felt that painting had to find a new way to express the beauty of nature.
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
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Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.
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I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
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I’ve been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who’s inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai and I’ve had his book by my bed looking at how he interprets landscapes – mountains and water and flowers and birds.
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Painting, an oeuvre, is not such a big deal, it is so unimportant. But that’s precisely what makes it interesting.
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If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.
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When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.
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A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.
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I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had.
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Painting is a hobby for me.
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist.
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All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.
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Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
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There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.
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Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.
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The greatest moment is when you realize that the painting you've just finished is nothing. When you manage to detach yourself from it.
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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.
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Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
