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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
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting was always something I thought I'd do once I retired. But then, about five or six years ago, a good mate passed away suddenly at the age of 50 and it made me realise that if I put off doing stuff until I retire, I might not ever get there.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.
- Art Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As someone that really likes painting and visual art but also likes video and movies and also music and recording and style and clothes, it was hard to pick what to do with my life.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
- I Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm painting the paintings that I want to see in museums. And I'm hopefully presenting them in a way that's universal enough that they become representative of something different than just a black body on a canvas.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020