- Business
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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
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, play, drawing, and painting were important to me - they still are.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been many, many paintings of Theseus and the Minotaur, as it is one of the more popular myths, so how could I make mine different and new? I decided it would be best to make the most dynamic painting I could. I wanted to capture the moment right before the Minotaur's horn was snapped.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020