- Me
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If not a chef, I would have been a painter maybe. I have interest in painting, and I do it well.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting, learning how to cook, cooking for friends, and doing yoga.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020