Painting Quotes
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
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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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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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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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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 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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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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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
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I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.
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It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
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Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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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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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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In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
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I was always the misfit jock who was with people painting on walls.
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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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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.
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Painting is a coalescing of experience.
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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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Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life.
