- 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
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City, Kansas. And I always thought that acting was art, writing was art, music was art, painting was art, and I've tried to keep that cultural vibe to my life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Hockney is best known for his work with paint and canvas, but he has also worked in media as diverse as Polaroid-photo collage and fax painting.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020