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“Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?”

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Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“With experience it seems to be possible to control the flow of paint, to a great extent, and I don't use - I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident... it's quite different from working, say, from a still life where you set up objects and work directly from them. I do have a general notion of what I'm about and what the results will be. I approach painting in the same sense as one approaches drawing, that is, it's direct.”

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Author:Jackson Pollock

“Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.”

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Book:Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice

Source: Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice