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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've painted in the past, but I only average about one painting a year, and the last painting I did, I actually really liked.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first painting I remember selling was 'Panthera.' I made it while I was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the museum actually purchased it directly from me.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like owning a beautiful painting, except you can live in it.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing this since I was a kid. Then, I got in trouble for painting like this on the wall, but now, I get paid for it.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very girly growing up; I loved pink and doing my makeup and doing my hair and painting my nails.
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- Nov 07, 2020