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" Quotes and Sayings About the painting

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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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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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 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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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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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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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 painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Come Life Own Painting
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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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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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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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