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Figure Painting Quotes

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure Picture Quote #1

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s Picture Quote #1

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn’t - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, Why don’t you show the other stuff? I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition Picture Quote #1

When I’m not painting, I’m Oujia-boarding with my photos. I’ll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it Picture Quote #1

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? Picture Quote #1

I often avoid using the terms ‘figuration’ and ‘abstraction’ because I’ve always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting - you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again Picture Quote #1

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When I paint figures it’s never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel Picture Quote #1

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure Picture Quote #1

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure Picture Quote #1

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it Picture Quote #1

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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure (Figure Painting Quotes) Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s (Figure Painting Quotes) They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn’t - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, Why don’t you show the other stuff? I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition. (Figure Painting Quotes) When I’m not painting, I’m Oujia-boarding with my photos. I’ll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it. (Figure Painting Quotes) The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? (Figure Painting Quotes) I often avoid using the terms ‘figuration’ and ‘abstraction’ because I’ve always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting - you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again. (Figure Painting Quotes) When I paint figures it’s never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel. (Figure Painting Quotes) In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure (Figure Painting Quotes) A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure (Figure Painting Quotes) I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it (Figure Painting Quotes)