Painting Quotes

True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

Piet Mondrian

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By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Edvard Munch

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Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Tom Wolfe

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I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A difficult problem in itself, but one which I shall achieve.

Eva Hesse

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Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Philip Guston

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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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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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My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

Ellie Kemper

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Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Sylvester Stallone

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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

Yayoi Kusama

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Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.

Ron Fournier

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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

David Hockney

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To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Susan Vreeland

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By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.

Warren Beatty

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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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An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

David Lynch

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I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

Peter Wright

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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Takeshi Kitano

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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.

Mary Beard

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It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

Dave Hickey

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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

Peter Doig

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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Salvador Dali

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Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

Charlie Brooker

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