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“It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.”

Enough Seems Color Painting Ambition Mass Draws Drawing Distraction Drawing And Painting

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.”

People Giving Painting Serious Giving Up Ambition

Author:Robert Bateman

“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.”

Giving Looks Whole Term Alive Painting Ambition Mark Surface Constructs Intervals My Ambition

Author:Andrew Forge

“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.”

People Want Kind Art Three Lines Levels Awareness Painting Ambition Understood Praise Critics Burning Confused Significance Plastic Fluid Modernism Painting A Picture

Author:Arnold Friberg

“Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.”

Painting Brother Becoming Ambition Conventional Representation Wright Brothers

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.”

Humans Art Life Is Sides Painting Ambition Folly Life Is Like Skulls Grinning Memento Mori Memento

Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.”

Thinking Men Writing Persons Creativity Novel Creative Painting Activity Ambition Sake Disappear Prize Ambitious Be Creative Nobel Nobel Prize Creative Person Looking Ahead Ambitious Man

Author:Rajneesh

“I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.”

World Children Art Done Desire Artist Lost Given Interest My Own Pleasure Careers Painting Fit Ambition Museums Given Up Gallery

Author:Jean Dubuffet