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• Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

  William Merritt Chase

  Trying, Distinguished, Grandiose

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• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Girl, Flower

  "Forward to an Exhibit: II". Poem by E. E. Cummings, 1945.

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• I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

  Pablo Picasso

  Ideas, Giving, Guernica

  "The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities" by Paul Jones, (p. 47), 2011.

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• For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

  Fred Thompson

  Children, House, May

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• What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ?
  George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Buttons

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• I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

  Lucian Freud

  People, Portraits, Doe

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• I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

  Lucian Freud

  People, Spite, Happens

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• It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

  Lucian Freud

  Morning, Giving Up, Ambitious

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• As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Doe, Flesh

  Lucian Freud, Richard Calvocoressi, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (1997). “Lucian Freud: early works : Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art”

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• Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Ideas, Yellow, Orange

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• It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish.  No one is born with that skill.  It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding.  And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Sunset, Exercise

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

  Robert Plant

  Looks, Matter, Materialism

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• Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Dark, Voice, Tree

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.97, The Overlook Press

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• The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Sex, School, Responsibility

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• I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Memories, Thinking

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• When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Artist, Expression, Doubt

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• I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

  Edward Hopper

  Light, House, Want

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• I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

  Gustave Courbet

  Angel, Show Me, Shows

  Quoted by Vincent van Gogh in a letter to brother Theo on July 1885. "The letters of Vincent van Gogh". Book edited by Ronal de Leeuw, p. 302, 1996.

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• My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.

  Joan Mitchell

  Mirrors, Feelings, Landscape

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• When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Painting, Notion

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

  Jackson Pollock

  Glasses, Knives, Broken

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

  Jackson Pollock

  Flow, Accidents, I Can

  "Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner". Book by Ines Janet, 2007.

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• Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.

  David Sylvester

  Empathy, Looks, Identification

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• Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wall, Atmosphere, Religion

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