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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was traveling a lot during the '70s, the only thing I could do on the road was take photographs, so there wasn't much painting during those years.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
- In The End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the idea of a multi-sensory experience stemming from music that opened my interest into painting, to be honest.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is profoundly emotional. When I finish a painting, I'm usually extremely sad.
- Nov 07, 2020
Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020