Painting Quotes - Page 29

• Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

  Francis Bacon

  Artist, Thinking, Expression

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• Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

  Francis Bacon

  Feelings, Special, Emotion

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• I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

  Francis Bacon

  Illustration, Drawing, Would Be

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• Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

  Francis Bacon

  Interpretation

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• We only have our nervous system to paint.

  Francis Bacon

  Nervous, Paint, Nervous System

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• Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

  Francis Bacon

  Patterns, Canvas, Nervous

  Sir John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon (1967). “Bacon”

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• I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vanity, Should Have

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• Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

  Pliny the Younger

  Artist, Finishing, Unfinished

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• Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

  Ernst Haas

  Masters, Painting And Poetry, Senses

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• The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

  Paul Kane

  Memories, Lying, Two

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• Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

  Paul Kane

  Eye, Challenges, Balance

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• I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

  John Piper

  Running, Thread, Application

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• Intensity is all that matters in painting.

  John Piper

  Matter, Intensity

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• Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

  John Locke

  Art, Memories, Practice

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.37

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• Too much sparkle can detract from the focal point of the painting, so I blend some areas to tone down the look of the pastels in less important areas.

  Paul Murray

  Past, Important, Looks

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Madness

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• What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.

  John Carpenter

  Symphony, Feelings, Sound

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Art, Humor

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• In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

  John McLaughlin

  Way, Sound, Use

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• I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.

  Oliver Jeffers

  Views, Glasses, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

  William Friedkin

  Art, Giving, Depth

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

  William Friedkin

  Antiques, Want, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

  Philippe Petit

  Dancing, Dancer, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

  Daniel Craig

  Fishing, Fishes

  "Daniel Craig is James Bond in Casino Royale". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 12, 2006.

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