Painting Quotes
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I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.
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In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
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Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.
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In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.
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I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
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If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.
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I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.
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My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
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And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
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Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.
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I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.
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I see the possibilities of a new kind of painting. With free surfaces, the goal I was always steering towards.
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Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.
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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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The real horror is mass production. Painting when there is no compulsion to do so… …Pictures like that are all unpunished crimes.
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No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
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Painting is being alive. Through my painting, I beat back this world that stops us living and where we are in constant danger of being destroyed.. .No, you have to know when to keep silent.
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Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!
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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.
