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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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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My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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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.”
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Painting doesn't interest me.. .What I paint is beyond painting.
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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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Perhaps he Mondrian was too faithful to a single discovery. And perhaps that kind of painting was right for the period. But now peace and harmony are no longer possible. There is only anguish.
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I don't like talking. I don’t like people talking to me.. .Painting is silence.
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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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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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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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
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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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Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.
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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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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
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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.
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The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).
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I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.
