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" Quotes and Sayings About painting

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art Expression Forms Further
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

After Among Because Bought
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
Clown Paintings Sad Seen
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I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Been Bush His Interested
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.
Film Like Make Mind
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Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

Never ruin Painting Truth
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.

Astonishing Understanding Art
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A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.
New painting Birth Universe Human mind
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

About Acquainted After Aware
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It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Contact Easy Give Give And Take
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Come Does Painting Easel
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Before Canvas Ever Hardly
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Am Around Ease Feel
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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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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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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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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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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Drove Hard He His
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Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Being Deep Different DifferentThings
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Across Acting Actually Been
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When children draw or do rudimentary painting, the whole human being develops an interest in what is being done. This is why we should allow writing to develop from drawing.

Allow Being BeingDone Children
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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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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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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Paint Beautiful Pictures Important
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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach
Painting Transport me Another dimension Refreshes part
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Painting does what we cannot do,it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Painting does Cannot do It brings Dimensional world
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great.

Art history Is taught Tells you The painting
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Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.
Painting Intermediate Thought Thing
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I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

Paintings Garage Hole Part
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A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

Painting Beautiful
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

Nature Painting Pictures Beauty
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

Sculpture Painting Adding
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