- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love painting and have a need to do it.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
- Decorative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Civil Wars
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- Nov 07, 2020
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020