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“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.”

Want Writing I Can Ideas Waiting Painting Activity Sitting Staring Productive Trailers Hurry Up And Wait

Author:Lucas Neff

“I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.”

I Can Artist Painting Theme Relief Conundrums

Author:John Currin

“I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.”

“Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.”

Knows Men Writing I Can Painting Driven Drawing Software

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.”

I Can Certain Painting Bears Heavy Finished Finishing

Book:The Coup

Source: The Coup

“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Painting Demand Models Intelligent Postman

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.”

Ifs Men Said I Can Interest One Thing Painting Pity

Author:Claude Monet

“I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.”

Ifs Feels I Can Order Forget Painting Succeed Conveying Order To Succeed

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.”

I Can Able Painting Let Me Conviction Repeats Contribution

Author:Morris Graves

“Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.”

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Author:Philip Guston

“Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?”

I Can Doubt Painting Because I Can

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.”

Thinking I Can Jobs Records Painting Painter

Author:Robert Genn

“I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.”

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Author:Robert Bateman

“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.”

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Author:Artemisia Gentileschi

“I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.”

Thinking I Can Feelings Artist Painting Sculpture Handful

Author:Joe Bradley

“Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.”

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Author:Gerhard Richter

“I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.”

Art I Can Found Literature Quality Painting Art Is Endure

Author:Gerhard Richter

“In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I seen this until now? I can hardly wait to get to the studio and make the vision real.”

Ifs Way May I Can Real Waiting Vision Darkness Havens Painting Studios Bedroom

Author:Jules Olitski

“The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.”

I Can Color Painting Consistent Vivid

Author:Paul Stanley

“I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.”

Said I Can Enough Light Hate Darkness Painting Approach I Hate Agree Painter Sunlight Monet

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.”

Thinking Way I Can Helping Bits Movement Painting Loud Strokes

Author:Laura Harris

“The problem with Matisse is that I can't ever figure out when he's done a good painting or a bad painting because I don't know how to analyse him. I just know that I like the way he put it on and I like his airs and forms.”

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Author:Susan Rothenberg

“A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.”

Way Wells I Can Book Home Stuff Painting Comfortable Filled Fishes Sculpture Furniture Lamps

Author:Frank Gehry

“I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.”

I Can Done Progress Share Painting Solitude Dialogue

Author:Ken Danby

“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.”

People Ifs Want Years I Can Courses Can Do Compassion Painting Communication Laughter Hundred And Love Paint Colour Making People Happy

Author:Norval Morrisseau

“For me, painting is that magical material, that beautiful stuff that was invented, the ground-up pigments in oil which makes it very malleable. It can be manipulated and changed, darkened, lightened, given different hues and colors, so that by manipulating this material somehow I can find that figure I'm looking for, that figure that represents all the issues I'm bringing up and addressing.”

I Can Different Beautiful Given Stuff Issues Figures Changed Color Painting Materials Oil Mediums Hue Pigment

Author:Nathan Oliveira

“Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.”

Ifs Way Want I Can Enough Painting Constant Another Way Let It Go

Author:Jamie Wyeth

“Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.”

Ifs Knows Trying I Can Might Form Process Behinds Painting I've Learned Being Afraid Diving

Author:Lori Goldstein

“Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with all that lies on the banks of the Stour; those scenes made me a painter, and I am grateful; that is, I had often thought of pictures of them before ever I touched a pencil, and your picture ['The White Horse'] is one of the strongest instance I can recollect of it.”

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Author:John Constable

“My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.”

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Author:Scott Glenn

“Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.”

I Can Talking Subjects Honest Painting Serious Rogues

Author:Thomas Gainsborough

“I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.”

I Can Painting Theory Evolve Concrete Can Not

Author:William Baziotes

“I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.”

Men Want I Can Stories Language White Painting White Man

Author:Allen Sapp