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

  Edgar Degas

  People, Dancer, Wish

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

  George Grosz

  Art, Mean, Imperfect World

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• The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.

  Alphonse Mucha

  Hope, Bridges, Creating

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• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  Caravaggio

  Life, Art, Nature

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• I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

  Cy Twombly

  Inspirational, Time, Art

  "What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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• Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Blue, Color

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