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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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Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
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I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
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Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
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Painting from life is a completely different monster, which I like. But because I've been painting from photography for so long, I've learned my best moves from photography.
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Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.
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There's something really cool about taking oily coloured paste and pushing it around with these hairy sticks and making something that looks like you. That's the magic of painting.
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I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.
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It's amazing how, in New York, there is almost a feeling of entitlement by the public - this very palpable lack of surprise at being stopped in the street and being asked to be the subject of a 12-foot monumental painting.
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Painting does more than just point to things. The very act of pointing is a value statement.
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Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.
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