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“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.”

Long Art Moving Force Nature Deals Emotion Modern Painting Highest Aspect Ancient Objectives Aesthetic

Author:Lawren Harris

“One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.”

Deals Painting More Time Contracts Relieved Corresponding

Author:E. J. Hughes

“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.”

Thinking World Art Done Religious Loss Deals Modern Painting Return Eternal Losing Damage Customs Our World Secular Modern Art

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.”

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Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees... I have wanted to make the camera obsolete... because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.”

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Author:Philip Pearlstein

“I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.”

Ifs Looks My Own Rooms Deals Painting Draws Window Paint Curtains

Book:Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Source: Picasso, Inside the Image: Prints from the Ludwig Museum, Cologne

“I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.”

Doe Deals Painting Pure Hopefully Enjoyment Canvas

Author:Donald Trump

“One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.”

World Reason Wanted Actors Deals Stage Painting Goes On Musician Performances Bigger Moved Productions Around The World

Author:Jared Leto

“I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.”

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Author:Agnes Varda

“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.”

Source: The Shock of the New

“I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.”

Firsts Interest Deals Four Painting Decided Painter

Author:John Dyer

“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.”

Book:Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

Source: Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981

“When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.”

Energy Deals Painting Lifts Censorship Veils Repression Unleashed

Author:Michele Cassou

“In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.”

Deals Painting Huge

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.”

Believe Wanted Three I Believe Deals Knowing Sadness Sky Loneliness Fields Painting Paint Brushes Wheat Cloudy Wheat Fields Cloudy Skies Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Vincent Van Gogh