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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done an anguished painting.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.
- Paint
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy level, and you do better painting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020