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“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

“Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.”

Born Painting Bird Absurd Symbols Significance Canvas Symbolic Accord

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”

Earth Mother Born Painting Taste Painter Milk Milieu

Author:Yves Klein

“I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.”

Moments Force Born Our Lives Painting Couple Projects Curiosity Portraiture

Author:Oliver Jeffers

“I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.”

Thinking Feelings Born Color Painting Flow Structure Possessed

Author:Jules Olitski

“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”

Men World Writing Children Has Beens Art Real Whole Joy Artist Universe Born Religious Love Is Subjects Painting Birth Art Is Whole World Impulse Non Religious

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“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

“Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.”

Children Has Beens Art Born Painting Highest Method Architecture Sculpture Best Work Poetry And Music

Book:Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883

Source: Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883

“I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world.”

World Long Different Process Born Results Careers Creative Painting Oil Technique Knives Canvas Artwork Inner World

Author:Leonid Afremov

“My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”

Beautiful Born Love Is Violence Tree Painting Eating Violent Landscape Scream Insects Fear Of Death Parts Of Life Mosquitoes Maybe Love Beautiful Landscapes

Author:Francis Bacon

“The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. 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 had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.”

“The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.”

World Different Born Fantasy Pieces Possibility Building Painting Perspective Photography Infinite Screens Cinema Sugar Unlimited

Author:Salvador Dali

“If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.”

“We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'”

Said Dream Literature Born Painting Source Models Visuals Canon Surrealist

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.”

Art Father Born Knowing Painting Painter Historian Acceptable Things In Life

Author:Domenico Gnoli