Painting Quotes
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
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There are two problems in painting. One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting. The first is learning something and the second is making something.
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I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past..
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I see possibilities for a whole new way of painting, in which planes are used more freely. Weaving and embroidery make this possible.
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There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.
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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
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What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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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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It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.
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Creating a painting is a matter of ensuring that all its parts achieve unity. Though it's a precarious, fragile unity.
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If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
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I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
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Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
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Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
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Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.
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For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
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The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.
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I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
