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“The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.”

World Love Life Giving Death Individual Painting Drinking Oneself Improvement Painter Live Life Good Life Individual Life Live Life Happy

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.”

Want Giving Past Painting Masters Deserve Built Roots Importance Including Surface Abandon Layers Canvas Transparent My Past

Author:Jose Parla

“I don't collect art at all. I'm fascinated by art. I receive a lot of presents. My house is full of things, but I am not a collector; it's just that people I work for, and friends, give me a lot of things. There are pictures all over the walls, sculptures, mobiles and paintings. I am embarrassed because I wonder what I should do with them.”

People Giving Should Art House Wonder Painting Wall Give Me Fascinated Embarrassed Sculpture Collectors

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.”

Ifs Giving Looks Art Artist Painting Illusion Depth Mediums Cinema

Author:William Friedkin

“My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.”

World Giving Painting Giving Back

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i

“The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.”

Ifs Want Giving Self Jobs Difficult Painting Discipline Easier Worthwhile Self Discipline Difficult Things Doodling

Author:John Hurt

“Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.”

World Giving Imagination Painting Birth Fertile

Author:Joan Miro

“A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the world - a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better.”

World Giving Persons Song Enjoy Love Is Creative Painting Creative Person Beauty Of The World

Author:Rajneesh

“[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.”

Giving Writing Has Beens Literature Painting Paint Revenge Envy Rejects License Relativism Canon Licenses Untalented Cultural Relativism

Author:George Will

“I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.”

Ifs Giving Trying Painting Tired Boring Newspapers So Boring

Book:Andy Warhol

Source: Andy Warhol

“Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.”

Giving Eye Painting Judging Ears Drawing Sensitive Competent

Author:Josef Albers

“I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids.”

People Giving Art Kids Form Wish Hours Ability Comedy Painting Bills

Author:Godfrey

“The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.”

World Giving Feels Hands Reading Literature Opportunity Rooms Vision Painting Reader Offers Complexes Creator Narrative Complexity Dimensions Canvas Disadvantages

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.”

Knows Want Giving Made I Can Done Enough Artist Turns Painting Intention Stores Brilliant Obsessed Museums Really Great Garage Antiques Lockers Storage Wrong Turn Garage Sale

Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.”

People Giving Looks Form Sound Painting Like Me Vocabulary

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it.”

Ifs Giving Years Stills Ideas Differences Rooms Imagine Painting Sitting Living Room

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.”

Giving Moving Pieces Heard Painting Give Me

Author:Kate Bush