- Matters
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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
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will keep painting until I die.
- Infinite
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
All gardening is landscape painting.
- Judges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020