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“I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.”

Stills Important Seems Able Found Objects Painting Composition Still Life

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.”

People Firsts Home Running Found Fire Painting Importance Testament

Author:Robert Genn

“I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.”

People Ifs Men Way Made I Can Soul Done Today Order Found Imagine Particular Painting Drawing Painter Vow Solemn Bishops Cheated Purgatory

Author:Artemisia Gentileschi

“I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.”

Art I Can Found Literature Quality Painting Art Is Endure

Author:Gerhard Richter

“My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.”

Problem Found Painting Paint Dirt

Author:Robert Gober

“Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.”

Men Mind May Reality Earth Purpose Certain Found Painting Survival Tests Instinct Drawing Dedicated Can Not Toil Immune Cursed

Author:Ala Bashir

“In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.”

“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.”

Art Made Wanted Used Reading Found Deals Effort Century Painting Cost Photography Models Argument Cameras Favors 20th Century Abstraction Discomfort Obsolete Realist Fees

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“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

“I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.”

Years Real Found Color Painting Drawing Scales Mediums Translate

Author:Nelson Shanks

“Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.”

Art Remember Found Secret Greater Painting Quiet Aim Excellence Various Chosen Fewer Eloquence Singleness

Book:Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

Source: Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious

“The idea was to take fine art and put it into the location of the movie scripts. The script itself is collage - some of the lines come from actual movies and I've written others to make the text work with the found image. In this way, the details of old dead guys' paintings (from the collection of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, where this work will be exhibited in relation to the historical paintings) become illustrations of the movie scripts. I found this mélange of high art and Hollywood amusing.”

Way Art Ideas Guy Found Lines Written Painting Fine Hollywood Relation Historical Scripts Details Collections Museums Location Amusing Fine Arts Illustration Collages High Art Frankfurt

Author:John Baldessari

“The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.”

Ideas Beautiful Joy Found Painting Shapes

Author:Agnes Varda

“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 think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.”

Thinking Found Objects Painting Photograph Manipulate Crops Found Objects

Author:Dennis Hopper

“Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.”

Writing Enough Might Found Bits Interesting Painting Photography Distraction Marvelous

Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.”

People Enough Found Sides Figures Painting East Apartment East Side Figure Painting

Author:Claes Oldenburg

“I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.”

Thinking Looks Real Girl Found Fronts Painting Cameras Photograph Naked Wow Depressing Venus Blurry Polaroids Venus De Milo

Author:John Currin

“In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I've found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the hills of the nose and the valley of the cleft of the chin.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Subjects Painting Expression Photograph Complaining Hills Landscape Noses Lakes Valleys Chins

Author:John Loengard

“While it may seem a little mundane, the material realities of realizing the painting actually have a lot to do with how you should read the painting. For example, we assume that what the model is wearing is what we found him in in the streets. No; in fact, a lot of what happens is that in Photoshop certain aspects are being heightened or diminished. There is no actual material truth in these paintings.”

Should May Littles Facts Reality Seems Happens Certain Found Realizing Streets Example Painting Materials Models Aspect Assuming Mundane Photoshop

Author:Kehinde Wiley

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