Painting Quotes
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A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
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I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.
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I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.
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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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Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.
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Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.
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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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Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.
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I'm much more of a minimalist. My mom was Russian, so she loved lots of jewelry and opulence and tons of paintings on the wall and lots of clothes. I'll buy one thing that I love a season and wear it all the time.
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Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!
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Painting is a jeu d'esprit.
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Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.
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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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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
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When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.
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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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When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
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A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.
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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
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What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance.
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But London didn’t care, she never does when you leave her because she knows for every one that leaves another two arrive. Besides, she was too busy painting on her neon lipstick and dolling herself up in red and gold.
