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“Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.”

Giving Soul Water Memories Wall Birth Drink Paint Your Soul Caves Lap

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.”

Reality Memories Attention Minutes Paint Fancy

Book:The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

Source: The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper

“It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.”

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“If you follow the process of a thought - any thought, not just about art - the thought changes. It has to do with what you can hold in your memory and what you lose. That's an interesting thing to try to paint.”

Ifs Trying Art Process Loses Memories Interesting Paint Interesting Things Our Memories

Author:Ross Bleckner

“For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's driven me to find the design concept first, and to rely on my memory and technical skills to supply only those details that are needed.”

Thinking World Years Firsts Memories Design Painting Needed Skills Concepts Paint Details Driven Around The World Rely Technical Skills

Author:Milford Zornes

“Draw places you have seen from memory. I used to paint things I had glimpsed through windows while riding in the elevated train.”

Used Memories Draws Window Train Paint Riding

Author:John French Sloan

“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.”

Ideas Artist Memories Paint Oil Breathing Pushing Brushes Mixing Dripping Blurry

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter.”

Said Matter Faces Certain Memories Painting Materials Faults Paint Speed Resistance Interpretation Capture Gestures Brushes Mindless Insistence

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?”

Ifs Writing Wells Doe Memories Style Figures Movement Masters Paint Visuals Faculty Originality Gestures Countryside

Author:Remy de Gourmont