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“When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.”

Firsts Desire Pleasure Painting Metaphor Imagery

Author:Will Cotton

“It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.”

Eye Desire Interest Attention Painting Senses Mortals Variety Relaxation Decoration Monstrosity

Author:Michelangelo

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Needs Should Art Soul Matter Spirit Desire Artist Wish Failing Painting Noble Your Soul Host Kindred Painting Art

Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.”

Desire Figures Painting Paint

Author:Nathan Oliveira

“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”

Firsts Inspiration Moving Desire Artist Motivation Painting Waste Wasting Time

Author:Nita Engle

“the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.”

Moving Desire Night Loss Secret Beauty Painting Wall Elements Longing Contemplation Sunset Buyers

Book:Catherine Carter: A Novel

Source: Catherine Carter: A Novel

“I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.”

Source: Paula Rego

“An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.”

Men Self Desire Consciousness Honest Painting Ego Degrees Shadow Paint Dramatic Artificial Introducing Portraits Highlights Self Consciousness Self Portrait

Author:W. H. Auden

“When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.”

Years Looks Art Self Able Desire Strong Sex Wonder Doubt Painting Paint Self-doubt

Author:Miriam Schapiro

“I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.”

Ifs Trying Jobs Desire Fun Interest Painting

Author:Gerhard Richter

“I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.”

Running Desire Fun Painting Wall

Author:Frances Stark

“There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.”

Want Trying Looks States Moving Desire Interesting Gone Objects Painting Like You Ego Concepts Museums Aesthetic Live Your Life Observers Harmonious

Author:Zack Snyder

“Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.”

Believe Mean Desire Literature Views Painting Creatures Point Of View Storytelling Filmmaking Gazing Navel Navel Gazing

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.”

Thinking Would Be Desire Certain Culture Bits Possibility Painting Type Institutions Museums Inclusion Viewers Precedent

Author:Kehinde Wiley