Painting Quotes - Page 36

• We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Ideas, Knowing

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Singing, Levels

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Dream, Said

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• I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Firsts, Looks

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2012

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, Generations, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.

  David Niven

  Dream, Wall, Dirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Has Beens

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

  David Hockney

  Photoshop

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

  Jenny Holzer

  Want, Shows, Seems

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Mother, Growing Up, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Oil, Painter, Studios

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Does it bother me that some people are burning their own System CDs and taking money out of my pocket? Not really. This has always been about putting the best possible version of the song in the fans hands. It was like selling an artist's painting before he had finished it.

  Daron Malakian

  Song, Artist, Hands

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• If you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word you are literally painting your future or making your dinner - whatever you want to call it - you are creating ... and you are creating your own life.

  Louise Hay

  Thinking, Creating, Facts

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• When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

  Faith Ringgold

  Quilts, Able, Accepting

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• I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

  Florence Welch

  Wall, Together, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

  Francis Bacon

  Luck, Intuition, Stuff

  Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon, Marente Bloemheuvel, Jan Mot (1995). “Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa”

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• All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.

  Chris Martin

  Beautiful, Girl, War

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. November 2013.

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• I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.

  James D'arcy

  Real, War, Reading

  "‘Spotlight’s Brian d’Arcy James On Journalism Versus Acting & Playing A Nerd – Q&A". Interview with Jeremy Gerard, deadline.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

  Claude Monet

  Gardening

  Claude Monet (2007). “Monet: a visit to Giverny”

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• As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

  Amrita Sher-Gil

  Feet, Technique, Soil

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• If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.

  Bruce Campbell

  Blood, House, Buckets

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Writing, Breathing

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• Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

  Herb Alpert

  Art, Moments, Power Of Now

  FaceBook post by Herb Alpert from Apr 26, 2017

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