“To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.” IdeasArtistMemoriesPaintOilBreathingPushingBrushesMixingDrippingBlurry Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
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“To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly entrancing, infuriating, and ravishingly beautiful that it makes it worthwhile to go back into the studio every morning, year after year, for an entire lifetime.” YearsBeautifulMorningBloodLifetimePaintStudiosOilPainterSubstanceWorthwhileEvery MorningInfuriating Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.” DiscoveryTransformationPaintOilBrilliantMoodPainterUnexpectedMuddy Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
