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“I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.”

Should Believe Art I Believe Painting Uplifting Viewers Painting And Art

Author:Damien Hirst

“The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important graphic medium of our day. It does not have to be, indeed cannot be - compared to painting - it has different means and aims.”

Source: Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition: His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters

“In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're good and I trust that wherever you are and whatever you do, you will do it right.”

Way Believe Children I Believe Possibility Painting My Children Wherever You Are

Author:Norbert Bisky

“It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness, this doesn't mean I believe there's no kindness in the real world. In fact, what it may mean is that I very much value kindness. Like if you make a painting in which only greens are allowed, it wouldn't mean you don't believe in blue.”

Ifs World Want Believe May Mean Real Facts Reality Jobs Values I Believe Fiction Kindness Painting Blue Don't Believe Real World Representatives Fictional Worlds

Author:George Saunders

“I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.”

Thinking Should Believe Made Feelings I Believe Too Much Painting Colour Conception Personal Feelings

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Ifs Believe Art Artist Next I Believe Opinion Painting Pure Concerned Drawing Rejects Formal Criteria Departure Programmes

Author:Gunter Brus

“I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.”

Writing Believe Universe Force I Believe Painting Flow

Author:Erica Jong

“A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.”

Believe Has Beens Enough Feelings I Believe Difficult Interesting Painting Motive Layers Topics Vigor

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else. But I just don't quite have the nerve to chuck drawing and painting. Part of it is that I enjoy it too much, and part is that I don't have the courage to renounce the world. I don't want to move out of this nice neighborhood so that I can live in a shed and devote myself to meditating and touching something I can't feel. I'm addicted to the fun of playing in the world.”

“I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.”

Believe Wanted Three I Believe Deals Knowing Sadness Sky Loneliness Fields Painting Paint Brushes Wheat Cloudy Wheat Fields Cloudy Skies Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.”

Believe Art I Believe Prayer Wise Heard Painting Art Is France Multitudes Worldly Domain Reproduction Messiah Present Day Credo This I Believe Avenging

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.”

Believe I Believe Acting Painting I Believe In Painting A Picture

Author:J. B. Smoove