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“The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.”

Air Painting Masters Breathe

Author:Edgar Degas

“When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh air, and high speed motor cars and television, all the animation - a world apart from a little square of canvas that you smear paint on.”

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Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.”

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Author:Mark Kostabi

“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

“You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.”

Thinking Felt Space Air Special Painting Comfortable Built Studios Decent

Author:Peter Doig

“In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.”

May Grace Air Painting Add Features Portraits Observing

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.”

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Book:The Lost Wife

Source: The Lost Wife