Painting Quotes
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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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There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
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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.
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
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All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
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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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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
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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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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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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
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If you didn't know what you were trying to do, Robert von Neumann wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and walk away. So you very quickly learned to think that you'd better be attempting to do something in that painting class.
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My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
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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.
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My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
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The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.
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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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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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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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Painting is a hobby for me.
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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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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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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 don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
