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A great painting is a great painting.
- Larry Poons
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I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and matte paintings. I started doing matte paintings professionally back before the computer, sort of painting on glass.
- Robert Stromberg
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I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.
- Ellsworth Kelly
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Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
- Peter Wright
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I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.
- Peter Wright
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I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.
- Peter Wright
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I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?
- Peter Wright
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
- James Gray
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
- J. G. Ballard
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
- Bridget Riley
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
- Paula Patton
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Pablo Picasso would paint a painting and hang it on the wall, and you would go and see the painting exactly how he wanted it to be made. But if you have an idea for a TV show, for example, you're beholden to studios to produce it and distributors to distribute it.
- Casey Neistat
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
- Fernando Botero
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
- Fernando Botero
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
- Fernando Botero
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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
- Fernando Botero
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Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.
- Margrethe II of Denmark
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I've had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.
- Virat Kohli
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My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.
- Cecily Brown
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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
- Jonathan Winters
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Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.
- Jeff Ament
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I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.
- Brad Pitt
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
- Kenya Barris
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I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience.
- Benny Cassette
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
- Maurice de Vlaminck
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Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
- Jennifer Lawrence
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
- Dan Colen
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
- Dan Colen
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.
- Henry Rollins
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
- P. J. Harvey
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I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.
- P. J. Harvey
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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
- Josef Albers
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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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I want to die painting.
- Paul Cezanne
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When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could do it, but I didn't have anything to say in that medium.
- Ellen McLaughlin
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I started painting when I was in high school.
- James Best
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When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.
- James Frey
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With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
- Mickalene Thomas
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I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.
- Mickalene Thomas
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Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.
- Maurice de Vlaminck
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Painting completed my life.
- Frida Kahlo
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
- Natasha Bedingfield
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You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
- Klaus Kinski
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If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.
- Mac Miller
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
- Edvard Munch
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I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.
- Georg Baselitz
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I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
- Georg Baselitz
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My love affair with painting is bittersweet.
- Kehinde Wiley
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'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided to abandon pure painting or painting for its own sake. I thought of introducing elements alien to painting as the only way out of a pictorial and chromatic dead end.
- Marcel Duchamp
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.
- Francisco Goya
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
- Catherine Deneuve
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Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
- Gustav Klimt
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If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.
- Gustav Klimt
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After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
- Gustav Klimt
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Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.
- Etel Adnan
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I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.
- David Allee
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I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
- Morton Feldman
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I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.
- Jeffrey Brown
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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
- Georges Rouault
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I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.
- Francisco Goya
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I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
- Mark Tobey
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There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.
- Larry Poons
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I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
- Max Beckmann
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Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.
- Max Beckmann
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I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
- Max Beckmann
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I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.
- Alessandro Michele
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I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point of view. It would help the industry to move on.
- David Cage
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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
- Amor Towles
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It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.
- Aime Cesaire
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
- Gail Carson Levine
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When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.
- Shonda Rhimes
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You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.
- John Kricfalusi
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I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.
- Mary Quant
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I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
- William Scott
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On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.
- William Scott
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Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
- William Scott
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Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting.
- Roy Lichtenstein
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Modern art, in particular, seems especially vulnerable to fraud. Its abstractions are sometimes difficult to understand or grasp, and a modern painting is often loved less because of its intrinsic quality - its beauty, as conventionally understood - than because of the identity of the painter, its mark of social status.
- Peter Landesman
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I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 - it was my nickname.
- Michael Graves
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I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.
- Diora Baird
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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
- Berkeley Breathed
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
- Yves Chauvin
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The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.
- Robert Indiana
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The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.
- Robert Indiana
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When I was painting portraits and - shall we say? - rather allegorical heads, which is the figurative work which immediately preceded the direction I have since gone, these images were always of a very fixed, rigid quality, and, of course, my work still has this aspect.
- Robert Indiana
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Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
- Robert Indiana
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If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.
- Caspar David Friedrich
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When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.
- Adolph Gottlieb
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When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
- Will Cotton
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I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
- Kenneth Noland
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I always say that improvisation is the utterance of one's spirit, and it dictates your life experience, and that's how you find your concepts and your way for painting your musical picture.
- Dianne Reeves
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All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.
- John Mellencamp
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I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
- Gerhard Richter
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Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
- Gerhard Richter
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I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
- Gerhard Richter
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I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the ultimate, the maximum. It's a challenge that excites me.
- Robin Van Persie
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In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.
- Margaret Keane
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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
- Pierre Loti
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The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
- A. S. Byatt
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
- Hansika Motwani
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