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“One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.”

Painting Painter Imitation Imitating Imitating Others

Author:Frank Stella

“It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.”

Littles Would Be Voice Teaching Style Painting Personality Tone Imitation

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.”

Remember Next Painting One Day Bunch Bowls Imitation Next Day Grapes Juan

Book:My life in sculpture

Source: My life in sculpture

“My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.”

Reality Wanted Painting Imitation Corresponding

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.”

Giving Art Pleasure Greater Produce Painting Imitation Lively True Knowledge Best Nature

Book:The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life

Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life

“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.”

Years Age Painting Photography Hundred Years Ago Photographer Ridiculous Painter This Day Imitation Abstraction Imitating Laughable

Author:Berenice Abbott

“Not infrequently, we encounter copies of important human beings; and here, too, as in the case of paintings, most people prefer the copies to the originals.”

People Humans Important Human Beings Cases Painting Originals Encounters Copies Imitation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.”

Writing Wells Ends Artist Break Achieve Century Painting Expression Photography Aim Instruments Blind Blow Appearance Invention Mortals Imitation Assured Nineteenth Century Recklessness

Author:Andre Breton