Painting Quotes - Page 31

• Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Eye, Goal, Creative

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• You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Love Picture, Love You, Artist

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Röbel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

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• I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

  David McCullough

  Art, Teaching, School

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Ideas, Knowing

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

  Walter Mosley

  Crafts, Bunch, Painter

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Singing, Levels

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Dream, Said

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• Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mother, Art, Father

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• I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Firsts, Looks

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2012

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• Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  Enemy, Weapons, Used

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• We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.

  Paul Kurtz

  Art, Good Life, Cheer

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• My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Giving, World, Giving Back

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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• I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.

  David Niven

  Dream, Wall, Dirty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Grace

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• I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

  Rene Magritte

  Book, Needs, Littles

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Winning, Class

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• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Has Beens

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

  David Hockney

  Photography, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

  David Hockney

  Photoshop

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

  Jenny Holzer

  Want, Shows, Seems

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

  Larry Clark

  Lessons, Composition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

  Jim Shaw

  Isms, Way, Stores

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Mother, Growing Up, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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