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“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.”

Helping Artist Vision Morning Streets Minutes Subjects Painting Photographer Thirty Sunday Significance Discovering Sunday Morning

Author:Robert Adams

“A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you.”

Ifs Want Firsts Helping Able Understanding Effects Painting Fats Caress Courtesans

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.”

Trying Helping Painting Help Me

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Helping Use Situation Painting Doctors Gallery

Author:Lucian Freud

“Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.”

Humans Littles Real Moments Helping Bits Human Beings Painting Poet Speech Little Bit Extremes Real Life Retreat Pain In Life

Author:Francesco Clemente

“I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students!”

Years Looks Art Helping Shows Artist Millions Students Mines Painting Sells Bargains Egotistical Debut Famous Artist Art Students Barely Getting By

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.”

Sometimes Moments Helping Seems Certain Painting Miracle Daring Intervention

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.”

Sometimes Helping Problem Painting Solve

Author:Mary Beth McKenzie

“Music loud, I can't help but wiggle a bit and I think that movement finds its way into the paintings... I can see it in the strokes.”

Thinking Way I Can Helping Bits Movement Painting Loud Strokes

Author:Laura Harris

“Donald Judd spoke of a 'neutral' surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used 'non' or 'not' - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. 'Neutral' expresses an intention.”

Thinking Way Helping Problem Used Known Painting Expression Solutions Negative Intention Surface Spokes Expressive Neutrality

Author:Jasper Johns

“I had been painting Kate Moss for a long time, both before the time of her crisis and during it. I felt very strongly for her - she's a hard-working mum and it seemed as if suddenly the world turned against her. Holy water cannot help you now is painted in very warm pretty colours.”

Ifs World Long Hard Helping Felt Water Painting Hard Work Holy Long Time Crisis Warm Colour Very Strong Mum Kate Moss Holy Water

Author:Stella Vine

“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.”

Way Doe Helping Body Beautiful Remember Cities Painting Eating Drawing Best Way Flavor Penetrate Beautiful City Beautiful Paintings

Author:Anais Nin

“In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.”

Wells May Said Helping Might Spirit Pleasure Music Lord Painting Conversation Elements Criticism Raises Wine Add Deny Devotion Meat Appetite Flavor Sauce Relish Propriety Banquets Ardor

Author:Laurence Sterne

“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

“Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.”

Real Helping Shows Pleasure Painting Aim Raises Intention Wide Colour Flattering

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

“I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.”

Thinking Want Helping Painting Studios Painter

Author:Peter Doig

“Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.”

Helping Stars Policy Painting Forgotten Shooting Occupation Adequate Profitable Shooting Star

Author:Ralph Allen

“The hardest thing in the world is being a critic of your own work. For me time has always been the best critic. If I can put something away and then come back, it's like taking a painting you're working on, turning it upside down, squinting at it, or walking away to get a new view. Time helps you know whether it's worth saving or whether it should be dumped.”

Ifs Knows World Should I Can Helping Views Painting Walking Critics Hardest Saving Hardest Thing Upside Down Walking Away Dumped Squinting

Author:Karla Kuskin

“It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.”

Way Doe Art Important Helping Acting Painting Scene Jokes Everyday Being Yourself Everyday Life

Author:Val Kilmer

“Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.”

Helping Faces Painting Pleasant Stand Alone

Author:Pierre Soulages

“We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.”

“There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.”

Helping Film Suffering Space Painting Ambiguity Suffering Of Others Reticence

Author:Teju Cole

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