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Painting Quotes

I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It’s like the main course isn’t there and you’re having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course Picture Quote #1

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is... not an object but a voice Picture Quote #1

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil Picture Quote #1

A painting, you know, it’s all dirty material. But it’s about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light Picture Quote #1

I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting Picture Quote #1

In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home the only thing I have power over is the garbage Picture Quote #1

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Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It’s not that relaxing. But that’s the discipline Picture Quote #1

Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn’t happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success Picture Quote #1

It wasn’t that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something Picture Quote #1

Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose Picture Quote #1

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime Picture Quote #1

If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement Picture Quote #1

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Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space Picture Quote #1

That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture! Picture Quote #1

There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean Picture Quote #1

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist’s materials and his inspiration Picture Quote #1

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there Picture Quote #1

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful Picture Quote #1

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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire? Picture Quote #1

I’m a tireless worker; I don’t consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven’t found anything that amuses me more than painting Picture Quote #1

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement Picture Quote #1

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil Picture Quote #1

I’m very superstitious. I come from a family that’s big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home Picture Quote #1

I think I’m painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape Picture Quote #1

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I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting Picture Quote #1

I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind Picture Quote #1

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind Picture Quote #1

The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees Picture Quote #1

If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it’s set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it’s not all art. Some of it’s design, some of it’s illustration, some of it’s graphics, some of it’s concept, some of it’s business and some of it, hopefully, is art Picture Quote #1

I’m not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I’m much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing Picture Quote #1

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I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It’s like the main course isn’t there and you’re having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course (Painting Quotes) To love a painting is to feel that this presence is... not an object but a voice (Painting Quotes) My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil (Painting Quotes) A painting, you know, it’s all dirty material. But it’s about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light (Painting Quotes) I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting (Painting Quotes) In painting, you have unlimited power. You have the ability to move mountains. You can bend rivers. But when I get home the only thing I have power over is the garbage (Painting Quotes) Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It’s not that relaxing. But that’s the discipline (Painting Quotes) Painting to me is addictive. These are moments when it is inspiring, but they are few and far between. I keep my tools sharpened for the moment when things do start clicking, but that doesn’t happen a lot. I really have to push myself sometimes. Painting is a profession in which it is very easy to be lazy, particularly if you have any degree of success (Painting Quotes) It wasn’t that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something (Painting Quotes) Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose (Painting Quotes) No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime (Painting Quotes) If you’re going to be an artist, all life is your subject. And all your experience is part of your art. A youngster told me recently that he was going to give himself a year to see if he has talent. A year! It takes a lifetime to see if you have it. Painting is total engagement (Painting Quotes) Painting is a lie. It’s the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space (Painting Quotes) That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture! (Painting Quotes) There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean (Painting Quotes) The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist’s materials and his inspiration (Painting Quotes) We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there (Painting Quotes) I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful (Painting Quotes) Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire? (Painting Quotes) I’m a tireless worker; I don’t consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven’t found anything that amuses me more than painting (Painting Quotes) A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement (Painting Quotes) In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil (Painting Quotes) I’m very superstitious. I come from a family that’s big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home (Painting Quotes) I think I’m painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape (Painting Quotes) I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting (Painting Quotes) I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind (Painting Quotes) Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind (Painting Quotes) The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees (Painting Quotes) If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it’s set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it’s not all art. Some of it’s design, some of it’s illustration, some of it’s graphics, some of it’s concept, some of it’s business and some of it, hopefully, is art (Painting Quotes) I’m not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I’m much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing (Painting Quotes)

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