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“When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.”

Want Looks Left Felt College Painting Decided Royal

Author:Chris Ofili

“Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic.”

Country Left Economic Painting Kings Office Sitting Shoulders Journal Woe Luther Abraham Oval

Author:Ron Fournier

“Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.”

Left Painting Obvious Finishing Incomplete Completion

Author:Robert Breault

“My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.”

Littles Use Left Color Painting Finished Tiny Brushes Matisse Renoir

Book:Past tense: diaries

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“I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.”

Ifs Years Ends Left Achieve Havens Painting My Time Worthwhile

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

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

“Mass production is nothing new. Weren't cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?... Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else's hand, or many people's hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content.”

People Hands Left Painting Mass Built Productions Scales Irrelevant Pyramids Cathedrals Nothing New Left Hand Mass Production

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.”

Knows Years Art Left Stuff Painting Happenings Exciting Painter Holiday Elsewhere Kansas Conceptual Art

Author:David Salle

“Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.”

Art Guy Left Football Painting Skills Drawing Scholarship Left Handed

Author:Terry Crews

“In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.”

“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.”

Ideas Left Born Space Brain Seeing Painting Activity Shapes Structure Mood Realization Colour Entering Engaging Hemisphere

Author:Guido Molinari

“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.”

Ifs Giving Long I Can Different Left Black Rooms Acting Stage Color Painting Directors Red Green Paint Metaphor Brown Editing Really Great Purple Acting In Movies Red And Black

Author:Scott Glenn

“For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.”

Years Home Left Painting One Day Husband Moved Credit Deception California Hawaii

Author:Margaret Keane

“Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.”

Hands Left Painting Versions Painter Chapters

Book:The Writing Life

Source: The Writing Life

“A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.”

Art Left Speak Silence Painting Art Is Notes Active Architecture Void Utterance Left Out Silence Speaks

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“When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.”

Men Country Enough Happens Culture Left Painting Periods Instance Burning Other Countries Sudan Time Periods

Author:George Clooney

“You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.”

Knows Way Years Kind Next Left Painting Dating Depth Notion Radio Finished Passages Carbon Abyss Unfinished The Next One Passage Of Time Unfathomable Blown Away Charcoal

Author:Werner Herzog

“Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.”

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Author:Laura Riding

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