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“When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.”

Want Looks Left Felt College Painting Decided Royal

Author:Chris Ofili

“I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.”

Giving Writing Book Shows Used Painting Serious Band Shots Decided Albums Quitting My Time Abandon Splits Gallery Writing Music

Author:Isaac Marion

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”

Way Want Wanted School Found Stupid Taught Painting Fool Shapes Concern Decided Paint Painter Colour Very Stupid

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape.”

Light Form Mother Too Much Painting Decided Essence Valuable Passing Passings Boat Landscape Features Annoying Execution Locks Can Not Royal Academy Brightness Lightness Scholastics

Author:John Constable

“At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.”

Thinking Years Art Facts Found Names Objects Painting Decided Brave Museums Prehistoric

Author:Pierre Soulages

“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

“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.”

Ideas Done My Own Taught Painting Shapes Decided I Realized Familiar

Book:Some Memories of Drawings

Source: Some Memories of Drawings

“In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.”

Long Whole Use Able Rooms Numbers Painting Long Time Decided Work Out Studios Colour Intensity Variation Palette

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I decided I needed something that I could feel as passionate about as acting, and something in which I could completely lose myself. I started painting, and I'm still doing it.”

Feels Stills Loses Acting Painting Needed Decided Passionate

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer