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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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
- Meet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then, that I usually end up painting faces. But I haven't done a self-portrait. I'd be too scared.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020