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Painting Quotes

All gardening is landscape painting.

Gardening Painting Landscape

I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.

Walls Painting You Way Canvas Out

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

Painting Shadows Sometimes Living

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

History Great Art Painting You Know

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

Love Painting Bittersweet Affair

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Time Me Painting Reality Discovery

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

Good Myself Painting Feel Good End

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

Painting World Opinions Museum More

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.

Music Creative Painting Random Bliss

I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.

Life Work New York Painting World

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.

Work Quality Painting Direction Say

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

Music Art Dance Painting Photography

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

Value Painting You Sell Costs Most

I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probably would have come out of the Army, gone into the art business, and probably would have flopped because I'm not that great.

Business Great Art Painting Army

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Power Fight Painting Control Think

That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

Painting Year Sculpture Why First

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

Morning Painting Sometimes Study Out

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting You True False Give Must

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Change Painting Society Artist AI

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.

Work Time Painting Thought Process

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.

Daughter Practice Me Painting Color

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

Painting You React Way Going

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

Good Style New York Painting New

My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

Allegra Versace

Home School Dress Me Mom Painting

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