Painting Quotes - Page 11

• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, What Matters, Pay

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• I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

  Scott Kahn

  Wise, Thinking, Sake

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• The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Artist, Transition, Lines

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• Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Beautiful, Nice, Blue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Careers

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody in the art club who was popular. No cheerleaders in the art club. I was told that I couldn't be a painter by my first painting teacher. I said I wanted to go to Cooper and be an art student, and he said, "You'll be a waitress." It was really the strangely indifferent parenting.

  Amy Sillman

  Teacher, Art, Cheerleader

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• No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Blue, Paris

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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• I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Light, Hands, Sculpture

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

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• Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Flower, Liberty, Stories

  "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry" by Charles Altieri, (p. 169), 1989.

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• I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Taken, Breasts, Ifs

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes". Book by Tibballs Geoff, p. 80, 2012.

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• As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

  Denzel Washington

  Color, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

  David Luiz

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mean

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• The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

  David Luiz

  Infinite, Possibility, Unification

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

  Sara Genn

  Keys, Guidance, Timeless

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• Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.

  Jim Rowe

  Wall, Technology, White

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• Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.

  Jim Rowe

  Communication, Discovery, Ideas

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• The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Feels

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• I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

  Nelson Shanks

  Real, Color, Years

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• If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

  Nelson Shanks

  Past, Thinking, Museums

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• There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.

  Nelson Shanks

  Men, Games, Play

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• My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

  Nelson Shanks

  Careers, Bills, Clinton

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• Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

  Abe Ajay

  Indulge In, Immediacy, Appetite

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• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Wall, Done

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• Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

  Charles Demuth

  Writing, Eye, Sight

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