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“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”

Art Painting Habit Finished Architecture Sculpture

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.”

Seems Painting Habit Activity Series Bounds Boredom Bores Recurring

Author:Rene Magritte

“Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.”

Facts Might Process Perfect Creation Painting Habit Painter Retiring Dissatisfaction Completion Insufficiency

Author:Lucian Freud

“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Bits Consciousness Painting Habit Pure Composition Shameless

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.”

World Needs Doe Real Beautiful Force Fear Realizing Imagination Painting Habit Bounds Ugly Dues Being Real Imaginary Projection Free Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.”

Wells May Art Made Memories Practice Painting Habit Musician Hearing Painter Settling Reasoning Thinker Instruction Strict Lectures Reflecting

Book:Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding

Source: Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding