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" Quotes and Sayings About painting

“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”

Politics War Painting Myself
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Understand Modern Enjoy Painting
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Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

Blue Studio Environment Painting
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Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.

Also Cubism Films Happy
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

Black Colored Happened Might
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Diary Way Keep Paint
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Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Energy Potential Waste Average
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Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.
Blind Feel Man Painter
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Arts Back Felt Just
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Experience Thought Choice Paint
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

Painting Children Fulfilled Horrible
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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

Begins Art Frame Humble
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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Painting Silence Thought Music
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From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra Being Child Desire
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I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

Covet Fortune Images Interest
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

Bad Baths Done Dream
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Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Attributes Colour Concerned Darkness
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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Always Band High Painting
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Architecture Dress Eighty Hundred
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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Disregard Duty Faith Opinion
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Derives Life Own Painter
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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Dream Paint Painting Then
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Am Appear Beautiful Clarity
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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Am Both Cannot Create
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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I love painting and have a need to do it.

I Love Love Need Painting
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Buy Came Challenge Did
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

Artist Emotions Pictures Every
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Analysis Delay Dynamic Means
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Movie Long Script Been
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

Deserves Everybody Literature Lives
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting Poetry Silent Speaks
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.

Art Dead Exhibit Feet
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

About Deep Father Fear
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Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Painting Mean Describing State
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For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Painting Easy Who Difficult
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In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting Idea Give True
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Painting Easy Know-how Very
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The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Painting Heart Telling Salvation
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Together

Painting Poetry Chooses Universal
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Free Soul Abstract Painting
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Sunlight is painting.
Literature Painting Sunlight Personification
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

Read poem World Good one
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Art Dance Drive Every
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Painting is a strange business.
Painting Strange Business Is a
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Architecture Painting Company Nose
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