Best painting & interesting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?”

People Wells Difficult Interesting Imagine Painting Contrary Imagine That Comrade

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

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

“Painting is very interesting.”

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Author:Sam Waterston

“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.”

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Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.”

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Author:Itzhak Perlman

“How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.”

Different Artist Interesting Havens Painting Finishing

Author:Peter Doig

“I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.”

Men Sometimes Beautiful Strong Interesting Painting Vulnerable Darcy Cobain

Author:Stella Vine

“It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?”

Perfect Interesting Painting Perfection

Author:Peter Doig

“Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”

Interesting Painting Timeless

Author:Peter Doig

“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”

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Book:The Painters of Modern Life

Source: The Painters of Modern Life

“When I look at a wildlife or nature subject, I dont see the feathers in the wings, I just count the wings. I see exciting shapes, color combinations, patterns, textures, fascinating behavior and endless possibilities for making interesting pictures. I regard the picture as an ecosystem in which all the elements are interrelated, interdependent, perfectly balanced, without trimming or unutilized parts; and herein lies the lure of the painting; in a world of chaos, the picture is one small rectangle in which the artist can create an ordered universe.”

“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.”

“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.”

People Ifs Way Littles Ideas Sometimes Whole Character Use Interesting Common Painting Normal Negative Intention Monsters Reactions Sympathetic Monstrous

Author:Chris Mars

“One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.”

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Author:Robert Longo

“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.”

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Author:Odd Nerdrum

“Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.”

Way Interesting Painting Everyday Everyday Life Interesting Ways

Author:Pierre Soulages

“I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.”

People Way Life Needs Made Stills Felt Interesting Class Subjects Painting Drawing Best Way Get Back Very Interesting

Author:Peter Wright

“Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.”

Interesting Levels Painting Shapes Remains Patterns Abstract Aesthetic Duality Really Interesting Abstract Painting

Author:Francis Bacon

“Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.”

Way Sometimes Interesting Emotion Color Painting Oppression Primaries Primary Colors

Author:Edward Norton

“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.”

People Looks Sometimes Fall Interesting Failing Painting Draws Ordinary Everyday Everyday Life Interesting Things Ordinary Things Overdrive

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.”

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Author:David Hockney

“For me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.”

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Author:Laura Owens

“Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.”

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Author:Chris Martin

“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

“Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.”

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Author:Ben Schnetzer

“Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.”

Writing Enough Might Found Bits Interesting Painting Photography Distraction Marvelous

Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“I tell a lot of interesting stories and talk about my background and have a lot of fun. We have a lot of pictures. They actually came to my house and shot me painting my toenails and doing dishes. But I never really do the dishes.”

Stories House Fun Interesting Painting Shots Backgrounds Dishes Interesting Stories Toenails

Author:Carmen Electra

“There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.”

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Author:Zack Snyder

“The idea of, say, the compressed space between the floor and the object hanging over it and then the long space between the object and the ceiling was a kind of interesting idea for me - the idea of compressing and expanding. That was an idea that I worked with, which you could only do sculpturally. You can't really do with a painting on the wall.”

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Author:Robert Barry

“I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John Moores Painting Prize and that was very interesting for me, because some of the judges are Chinese and some are British, and we look at the work together. It was fascinating that most of the time we were in complete agreement, but some of the time we were not. People send their works from all over China. For a foreigner, this gave me a very good picture about what is happening in China and its art today.”

“Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love being in popular culture and existing in the evolution of popular culture. But it's so different from painting, and it's so different from that sort of slow, contemplative, gradual process that painting is.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“There is that interesting thing that Haughton Forrest was imagining the landscapes. They are so dramatic. They are dark, big, gloomy paintings and he was making them during some of the most ominous massacres in Tasmania. Forrest was recording history but missing the human story.”

Humans Stories Bigs Dark Interesting Missing Painting Landscape Dramatic Interesting Things Gloomy Massacres Ominous Tasmania

Author:Ben Quilty

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