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• The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

  Jackson Pollock

  Thieves, Locks, Break

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Artist

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Children, Years

  "The Drum Perspective". Book by Peter Erskine and ‎Rick Mattingly (p. 73), 1998.

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• You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

  Romare Bearden

  Respect, Art, Mean

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• I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

  Lee Krasner

  Thinking, Doe, Painting

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Knowledge, Doe

  "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century". Book edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Nature, Reality

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.

  Willem de Kooning

  Space, Needs, Arms

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.135, The Museum of Modern Art

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• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Passion, Alive

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• n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

  William Dean Howells

  Spring, Mean, Artist

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• Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

  Pablo Picasso

  Song, Art, Bird

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• I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

  Lee Krasner

  Time, Being Alone, Needs

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• I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

  Robert Genn

  Jobs, Thinking, Records

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Naked, Red, Middle

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• Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody is a painter and he starts meditating, his painting will have a sudden jump, it will become tremendously profound - because whatsoever you paint reflects your mind. If the mind goes deeper, your painting will go deeper. You paint your mind. What else can you paint? You paint yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, People

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• People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Dancer, Wish

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• You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

  Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

  Country, Acceptance, Would Be

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• The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

  Sara Genn

  Keys, Painting, Guidance

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• It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Eye, Essence

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• Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Hands, Doe

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Flower, Rose

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• I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Nature, Flower

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• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Jobs, Mistake

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• Color and I are one. I am a painter.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Color

  1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.

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