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Painting Quotes

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music Picture Quote #1

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose Picture Quote #1

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It’s a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can’t do any thing else. I have only one interest Picture Quote #1

I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in! Picture Quote #1

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I’d go crazy Picture Quote #1

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is Picture Quote #1

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I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me Picture Quote #1

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone Picture Quote #1

Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares Picture Quote #1

The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it Picture Quote #1

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift Picture Quote #1

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting Picture Quote #1

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I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details Picture Quote #1

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it’s purpose, which is quite enough Picture Quote #1

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn’t a wholly masculine occupation, you know Picture Quote #1

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential Picture Quote #1

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world Picture Quote #1

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away Picture Quote #1

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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don’t stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit Picture Quote #1

It’s a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It’s a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work Picture Quote #1

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing Picture Quote #1

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks Picture Quote #1

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions Picture Quote #1

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form Picture Quote #1

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It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality Picture Quote #1

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think Picture Quote #1

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed Picture Quote #1

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting Picture Quote #1

The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist’s eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder Picture Quote #1

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter Picture Quote #1

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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music (Painting Quotes) While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose (Painting Quotes) What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It’s a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can’t do any thing else. I have only one interest (Painting Quotes) I’m in a foul mood as I’m making stupid mistakes... This morning I lost beyond repair a painting with which I had been happy, having done about twenty sessions on it; it had to be thoroughly scraped away... what a rage I was in! (Painting Quotes) I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I’d go crazy (Painting Quotes) I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is (Painting Quotes) I haven’t many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me (Painting Quotes) Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone (Painting Quotes) Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares (Painting Quotes) The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it (Painting Quotes) I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift (Painting Quotes) The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting (Painting Quotes) I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details (Painting Quotes) The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it’s purpose, which is quite enough (Painting Quotes) Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn’t a wholly masculine occupation, you know (Painting Quotes) In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential (Painting Quotes) I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world (Painting Quotes) There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away (Painting Quotes) Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don’t stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit (Painting Quotes) It’s a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It’s a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work (Painting Quotes) Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing (Painting Quotes) You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks (Painting Quotes) Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions (Painting Quotes) It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form (Painting Quotes) It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality (Painting Quotes) If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think (Painting Quotes) Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed (Painting Quotes) I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting (Painting Quotes) The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist’s eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder (Painting Quotes) Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter (Painting Quotes)

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