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452 Painter Quotes

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
Away Brushes Continue Etc
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

When Am Aware Doing
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Because Changes Destroying Etc
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Artist Expressing Feelings His
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

Different Go Matter Modern
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The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
Art Deeper Discover I Think
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Come Life Own Painting
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Color Drawings Final Make
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Artist Every Good He
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Big Brush Building Choose
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Drove Hard He His
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I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

An abstractionist Not interested Relationship Human emotions
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There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

One thing Fear Life The black
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The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Most interesting Painting Expresses One thinks
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To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.

Art An adventure Unknown world Explored
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There is more power in telling little than in telling all.

More power Telling little All
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit

Art Me Anecdote Spirit
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If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.
Only moved Color relationships Are missing Point
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I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!

Make You think Pretty pictures
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.

Progression Painter's work Toward clarity Elimination
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For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Authority Doctor Plumber Never questioned
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The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Abstract artist Material existence Unseen worlds
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The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

People Weep My painting Same religious
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I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!

Only want Live In peace Plant potatoes
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

Can't ever Really free You admire Somebody
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Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

My passion Nothing special Mine
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All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
All things Very uncertain Exactly What makes
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You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.
Must go Long journey Really find Wonderful home
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There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

No need Imagine Wondrous beauty
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The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

About God Does help Made An effort
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He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.

Moonlight Fell In love Most beautiful
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Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.

Some people Be disturbed Inclinations Large
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The spirit of adventure sped through his soul on mighty wings.

Spirit Adventure sped Soul Mighty wings
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Life is an isle of sorrow, you live today and die tomorrow!
Life An isle Sorrow Live today
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Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

Everyone Imagine Own snakes As awful
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What is right and what is wrong is a very sensitive matter.

What Right Wrong Sensitive matter
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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

A poet My lies The way My mother
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One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Go mad One took Bible seriously
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My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Own plan Swear off Every kind Virtue
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

I slept With faith Drank Danced
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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and willfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

The sin Unpardonable Knowingly Willfully
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Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

Science Art Causing change Conformity
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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Science Always discovering Odd scraps Magical wisdom
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I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Ever talk Words seems Waste Them true
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