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“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.”

Kind Art Artist Certain Order Social Painting Depends Succeed Painful Friendly Composer Insecure Sociability Order To Succeed

Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.”

Feels Art Real Form Language Understanding Subjects Painting Depends Importance Pictorial

Book:A Roger Fry Reader

Source: A Roger Fry Reader

“Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.”

Difficult Painting Depends Intention Speed Certainty

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Feelings Turns Freedom Painting Depends

Book:Blue Dog Man

Source: Blue Dog Man

“As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.”

May Language Sound Strange Painting Depends Blue

Author:Guy Deutscher

“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.”

Knows Doe Beautiful Artist Wish Painting Depends Smell Sincere Foreground

Author:Marcel Proust

“My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.”

Careers Painting Depends Bills Clinton Profession

Author:Nelson Shanks

“We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.”

Knows Art Ideas Form Knowing Painting Depends Everyday

Author:Karen Armstrong

“The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.”

Sound Meditation Painting Depends Paint Surface Scales Compare Intensity Gestures Bows Physicality

Author:Stephen Beal

“Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.”

Stills Done Rocks Painting Depends Brushes

Author:Patti Smith