Painting Quotes - Page 25

• Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

  John Currin

  Corporations, Lawyer, Attacking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

  John Currin

  Intelligent, Needs, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

  Jason Shawn Alexander

  Ideas, Figures, Feels

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

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• Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Ideas, Talent

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Book, Thinking

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• I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Thinking, Museums

  "Oral history interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Martha Kingsbury, www.aaa.si.edu. March 3, 1984.

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• I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more - for lack of a better word - risky.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, New York, Thinking

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.

  Margaux Williamson

  Fun, Struggle, Games

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• It's funny, when things go on the internet now and people say 'that's not real,' well, that's what painting's always done - it's taken things from the world and said, Look how much more real this is now.

  Margaux Williamson

  Real, Taken, People

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  Henry Rollins

  Moving, Book, Hero

  "Henry Rollins: Post-Punk Pundit". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. July 25, 2007.

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• I like movies! No, I like theater too. And paintings are great, and all of that! But to me, the great sort of artistic medium I think, of our time, is film. I really feel that. I mean to me, there's nothing else out there, where I can sort of suspend disbelief for two hours.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

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• If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Powerful, Tools, World

  "The Leonardo DiCaprio Revolutionary Road Interview". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. December 27, 2008.

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• When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

  Prince

  Song, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Enjoy, Knows, Ifs

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• If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

  Axl Rose

  Song, Art, Thinking

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• Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.

  Wim Wenders

  Photography, Art, Actors

  "Wim Wenders Looks Back at His Road Films With 'Portraits Along the Road' Retrospective". Interview with Kristen Yoonsoo Kim, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

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• From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Character, Artist

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Stories, Littles

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• What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

  Creed Bratton

  Art, Passion, People

  Source: www.talive.com

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• One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

  Robert Longo

  Black And White, Interesting, Photograph

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

  Robert Longo

  Drawing, Dust, Realizing

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

  Robert Longo

  Thinking, Drawing, Degrees

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Play, Squares

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.

  Robert Longo

  Jealous, Drawing, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.

  Eddie Vedder

  Order, People, Appreciate

  Source: www.avclub.com

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