- Dead
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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
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in the world today, where science rightfully is so important in terms of technology, innovation, telecom, Internet, fighting diseases, I think it's equally important that poetry and painting have their share of support.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an act of collective faith what an object is worth. Maintaining that value system is part of what a dealer does, not just making a transaction but making sure that important art feels important.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
- Artwork
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- Nov 07, 2020