Painting Quotes
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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
Peter Wright -
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.
Michael Ian Black
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These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.
Carey Mercer -
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
Nigel Dennis -
I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
Neil Welliver -
Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one came upon them suddenly all problems would subside.
Elaine Scarry -
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Ray Bradbury -
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.”
Andrew Graham-Dixon
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Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.
Bram van Velde -
Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.
Thomas Sowell -
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.
Eugene Delacroix -
It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
Steve Martin -
What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
Bram van Velde -
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
Paul Simonon
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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.
Paul Gauguin -
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
Renzo Piano -
Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life.
Bram van Velde -
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.
Paul Simonon -
When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.
Bram van Velde -
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.
Morris Graves
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He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?
Hilary Mantel -
Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.
Bram van Velde -
Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.
Richard MacDonald -
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
Tom Wesselmann