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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
- Being Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
- Acting Classes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I explored the arts in general; I took painting classes and sketching classes and acting classes and all sorts of different things.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a language of its own. You cannot interpret one form of expression with another form of expression.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020