- Certain Things
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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
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
- Walking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
- Fine Arts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been painting since I was a kid.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
- Nov 07, 2020
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't get me wrong, I like to have a good party sometimes. But I really like having my friends over, cooking for them, dancing and then doing some painting.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020