- 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
- Facile
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.
- Applying
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- Nov 07, 2020
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020