- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting Quotes
Reflections on painting, artistic unity, and building something new.
These quotes look at painting from a few angles - the idea that a piece should speak for itself, and the Bauhaus-era dream of folding painting into one shared creative discipline alongside sculpture and architecture. For more, browse Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to vote as left as I can. I hope that my paintings will coincide and be far left, but frequently... the painting rebels and goes fascist on me.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am in New York, you know, my studio is big, about 20,000 to 25,000 square feet, and I have painting rooms and rooms I do etching in, rooms I do lithographs.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020