Painting Quotes - Page 25

• Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Color, Promise

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.2871, Delphi Classics

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• As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Inspiration, Ideas

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• I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Poetry, Sculpture, Moments

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”, p.149

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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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• Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Language

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• The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Writing

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• A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

  Irving Stone

  Men

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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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• Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

  Austin O'Malley

  Photography, Color, Oil

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

  David Luiz

  Burning, Sometimes

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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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• If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

  David Luiz

  Black And White, Artistic Life, Trying

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

  Doug Dawson

  Art, Office, Watches

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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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• Painting is the subject of painting.

  Joseph Raffael

  Subjects

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• My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Communication, Two, People

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