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“It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.”

People Ifs Wells Art Different Done Film Music Creative Painting Expression Lucky Creating Enterprise Categories Translate Creating Something

Author:Robert Redford

“I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.”

Ifs Painting Sells Paint

Author:Tom Six

“You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.”

Ifs Needs Seems Levels Painting Intelligent Narrative Harsh

Author:John Currin

“I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing I Can Enjoy Realizing Walks Opinion Painting Pressure Length Museums Gallery

Author:Tom Robbins

“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!”

Ifs World Want Able Film Lost Hours Powerful Wonder Painting Tools Staring

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly.”

Ifs Knows Enjoy Painting Paint

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.”

Ifs Thinking World Want Firsts Art Would Be Able Song Pieces Painting Seven Albums Admire If I Could Publishing

Author:Axl Rose

“Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.”

Ifs Art Color Painting Promise Subtle Sculpture

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.”

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Author:Banksy

“Music is an amazing thing. I don't know if we really think about it the same way we consider a painting an amazing thing. I mean, a painting is, in quotes, imaginary. There is nothing on the canvas when you start; and writing a song, there is nothing there when you start.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Writing Mean Song Painting Music Is Imaginary Canvas Amazing Things

Author:Lou Reed

“If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.”

Ifs I Can Different Hours Loses Focus Painting Tired Paint Pushing Sensitivity

Author:Gary Panter

“I'm not a political artist in any way, but if an idea takes me somewhere or something is emotionally impactful, I find a way to make a painting that encapsulates it.”

Ifs Way Ideas Political Artist Painting Take Me

Author:Idris Khan

“I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.”

Ifs Home Painting Drawing Stuck Basements Painting And Drawing

Author:Terry Crews

“We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.”

People Ifs Way Looks Different Artist Speak Our Lives Painting Trauma Landscape Different Ways Beginning Of Life

Author:Christian Boltanski

“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.”

Ifs Art Artist Possibility Painting Members Unions Paint Studios Artistic Officials Etc Portraits Brushes Mural

Author:Ilya Kabakov

“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.”

“I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.”

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Author:Dave McKean

“If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.”

Ifs Way Dream Emotion Painting Offers Worth It Not Worth It

Author:Pierre Soulages

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”

Ifs World Want Humans Soul Spirituality Literature Music Clear Painting Garden Architecture Absence Paradise Thrive Gardening Great Garden

Author:Thomas Moore

“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.”

Ifs Ideas Age Doubt Century Painting Keys Structure Old Age Heroic Locked Modernity Touchstones Cezanne

Book:The Shock of the New

Source: The Shock of the New

“If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.”

Ifs Looks Kind Painting Return All Kinds Sensations Gallery Valve

Author:Francis Bacon

“I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?”

Ifs Knows Looks Subjects Fronts Painting Mark Outcomes Colour Improvisation Flooding

Author:Peter Wright

“You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.”

Ifs Knows Want Know How Painting Accidents Representation Accuracy

Author:Francis Bacon

“I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Done Would Be Painting Instinct Drawing Right Thing Erase Because I Can Illustration

Author:Francis Bacon

“It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.”

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Author:Robert Hughes

“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

“I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.”

Ifs Looks Doe Happens Form Example Mines Painting Dancing Cinema Sensitive Dancer Sculpting

Author:Philippe Petit

“If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Children Book Hard Three Hours Minutes Painting Hard Work Spending Children's Books Revising Redos

Author:Michael Ian Black

“If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.”

“I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a flower!" But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, "Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?"”

Ifs Wells Mean Made Hate Names Painting Flower

Author:Josh Smith

“I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.”

Ifs Feels Wells Persons Bits Millions Position Students Painting Wall Pounds Trapped Posters

Author:Damien Hirst

“I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory.”

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Author:David Niven

“If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.”

Ifs Painting Flower Draws Stuck Back Again

Author:Pablo Picasso

“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

“If you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you speak a word you are literally painting your future or making your dinner - whatever you want to call it - you are creating ... and you are creating your own life.”

Ifs Thinking Want Facts Speak Accepting Painting Creating Dinner Our Future Your Future

Author:Louise Hay

“The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.”

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Author:Alan Weisman

“If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.”

Ifs Want House Blood Painting Horror Cost Six Wide Inches Brushes Wrists Buckets Dip

Author:Bruce Campbell

“If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.”

Ifs Philosophy Loses Acting Painting Paint Jail Nothing To Lose

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

Source: Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist

“I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Art Made Real Shows Guy Saws Media New York Painting Ten Meat Investors Cop Impressed Estates Chasing Graffiti Packing Sold Out

Author:Alec Monopoly

“I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.”

Ifs Trying Jobs Desire Fun Interest Painting

Author:Gerhard Richter

“If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Wells Littles Different Song Easy Sleep Cutting Painting Findings Labor Ears Drinking Phones Beer Different Ways Over It Spells Rude Few Words Thankless Antenna

Author:Tom Waits

“A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.”

Ifs Want Two Artist Three Courses Imagination Stage Painting Products Add Copies Spoil

Book:Degas by Degas

Source: Degas by Degas

“What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.”

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Author:Edward Frenkel

“I think there has to be an interesting transformative process between your perception of reality and making the paintings. If you are just trying to render what you see you are not entering into a transformative process. And that's what makes a good painting: the process of transforming and the willingness to leave reality behind.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Reality Process Interesting Behinds Painting Perception Willingness Entering Transforming Perception Reality

Author:Susan Rothenberg

“Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).”

Ifs Would Be Black White Successful Color Painting Amount Late Areas Colour Formulas Dots Black Or White Small Amounts

Author:Matthew Collings

“If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!”

Ifs Half Cutting Painting

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.”

People Ifs Art Choices Painting Art Is Communicate Life And Time

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.”

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Author:Terry Teachout

“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

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