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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has a favorite song, but everybody don't have a favorite painting.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting of makeup is integrated into the painting of the flesh and not on top of it. I think in some ways it is more difficult to expressively deploy makeup.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the NBA and the Olympics. I first got into sculpting when I created a sculpture based on a painting I had done for the 1984 Olympics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to express or deal with differences that an all-over paint and canvas 'presence' neutralized.
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- Nov 07, 2020