Best mean & painting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source: Losing Julia

“There's something of a painting of a woman that represents all women - and by extension, all of humanity - that I just find very exciting. It's a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive.”

Thinking Mean Humanity Nice Alive Painting Exciting Extensions Distillation

Author:Will Cotton

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.”

Mean Doe Stories Form Lost Born Novel Century Fashion Painting Trends Rhyme

Author:Pat Conroy

“I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?”

Men Mean Doe He Man Painting Solutions Machines Method Depth Screens Articles Silk Copying Audacious

Author:Andy Warhol

“Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.”

Mean Art Force Painting Morality Contrary Charm Primitive Extensions Decadence

Book:Georges Braque

Source: Georges Braque

“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Art Would Be Turns Painting Machines Asking Aim Mere Satisfied More Time Enthusiastic Incomplete Collectors

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

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

“In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.”

Way Mean Simple Painting Expression Wine Primitive Vocabulary Expressive

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I consider painting as a means of expression, not as a goal.”

Mean Goal Painting Expression

Author:Marcel Duchamp

“Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.”

Giving Mean Literature Painting Shapes Perception Drawing Colour Sensations Concrete Abstraction

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.”

Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

“Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.”

Men Mean Happens Natural Painting Aspect Phenomenon Leafs Miraculous Lettuce Natural Phenomena

Book:Lee Krasner

Source: Lee Krasner

“I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.”

Thinking Knows Mean Art Artist Quality Greatness Painting Essentials Dimensions Works Of Art Motivated Great Work

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.”

Mean Ends Sides Effects Painting Paper Conscious Embrace Mere Paint Strive Technique Expressive Means To An End Mannerisms

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

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Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.”

World Feels Mean Important Form Artist Given Waiting Results This World Painting Various Surface Contemporary Painter Landscape Visible Productive Internals Stimulus

Author:Edward Betts

“Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.”

People Way Mean Self Beautiful Powerful Silence Painting

Author:David Luiz

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.”

Thinking Mean Form Sound Color Painting Instruments Sake Drawing Excitement Palette

Author:John French Sloan

“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.”

Mean Color Painting Drawing

Author:John French Sloan

“Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.”

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Author:Peter Doig

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