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Painting Quotes

I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed Picture Quote #1

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most Picture Quote #1

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story Picture Quote #1

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object Picture Quote #1

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition Picture Quote #1

My experience with life is that it’s very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it Picture Quote #1

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In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve Picture Quote #1

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can’t avoid saying Picture Quote #1

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions Picture Quote #1

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists Picture Quote #1

Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally Picture Quote #1

We look at a painting to know the painter; it’s his company we are after, not his skill Picture Quote #1

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When I look at a painting it isn’t only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won’t see it Picture Quote #1

Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what’s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky Picture Quote #1

The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing Picture Quote #1

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them Picture Quote #1

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished Picture Quote #1

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color Picture Quote #1

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I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors Picture Quote #1

I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids Picture Quote #1

I’m not anti conceptual art. I don’t think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that’s like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There’s something primal about it. It’s innate, the need to make marks. That’s why, when you’re a child, you scribble Picture Quote #1

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling Picture Quote #1

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical Picture Quote #1

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it’s not: it’s very fluid. It’s like I’m doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry Picture Quote #1

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Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry Picture Quote #1

A painting is life and a painting is death... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow’s dead for tomorrow’s living Picture Quote #1

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy Picture Quote #1

The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge Picture Quote #1

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people Picture Quote #1

When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we’re not just painting for fun or profit, we’re painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it Picture Quote #1

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I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed (Painting Quotes) The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most (Painting Quotes) I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story (Painting Quotes) An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object (Painting Quotes) The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition (Painting Quotes) My experience with life is that it’s very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it (Painting Quotes) In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve (Painting Quotes) I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can’t avoid saying (Painting Quotes) Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions (Painting Quotes) There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists (Painting Quotes) Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally (Painting Quotes) We look at a painting to know the painter; it’s his company we are after, not his skill (Painting Quotes) When I look at a painting it isn’t only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won’t see it (Painting Quotes) Choose what you want to do – or watch someone else doing it. Learn how to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery, or just listen to your favourite tune. Dance, talk or be lifted up to where you can see how other people make things work. Sit out over space with a drink and tune in to what’s happening elsewhere in the city. Try starting a riot or beginning a painting – or just lie back and stare at the sky (Painting Quotes) The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing (Painting Quotes) It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them (Painting Quotes) An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished (Painting Quotes) If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color (Painting Quotes) I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors (Painting Quotes) I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids (Painting Quotes) I’m not anti conceptual art. I don’t think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that’s like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There’s something primal about it. It’s innate, the need to make marks. That’s why, when you’re a child, you scribble (Painting Quotes) I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling (Painting Quotes) The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical (Painting Quotes) People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it’s not: it’s very fluid. It’s like I’m doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry (Painting Quotes) Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry (Painting Quotes) A painting is life and a painting is death... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow’s dead for tomorrow’s living (Painting Quotes) I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy (Painting Quotes) The things that separate the planes are the incisions and the edges of the matter. Each separate layer of cutting or painting is visible and readable as an edge (Painting Quotes) Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people (Painting Quotes) When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we’re not just painting for fun or profit, we’re painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it (Painting Quotes)

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