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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
- Corresponding
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- Nov 07, 2020
You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song is like a painting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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- Nov 07, 2020