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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the West, we look at art through life. Well, that's one way of living. In the Orient they look at life through art. They even drink their tea without sugar, for the same reason that they don't like a lot of frilly decorations on a painting. I can't stand butter on my bread for the same reason. I'm allergic to goo and rococo.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.
- Object
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to die painting.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have sworn to die painting.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together.
- Black Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are the guys that wear the white hats and they’re painting the picture of someone to wear the black hat and they chose me - even though they don’t really know me.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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- Nov 07, 2020