- Think
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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
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to play with textures and colors. I mix them together like I would in a painting.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series of blobs - amazing.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting - you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020