- Me
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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.
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- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been painting and making things since I was little.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in deep in everything, every moment of the day. I create the systems and oversee every aspect of the execution. Every mark on a sculpture and every brush-stroke on a painting is in a controlled situation, exactly as they'd be if I'd have done them myself.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.
- Enough Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020