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“Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.”

Use Understanding Hurt Knowing Painting Paint Appreciation Painter

Author:Jodie Foster

“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.”

Art Use Light Artist Black White Knowing Objects Painting Skills Convinced Supreme Relief Shade Black And White

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.”

Writing Would Be Next Knowing Pieces Painting Materials Computer Block Sculpture Never Quit

Author:Joan Didion

“We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.”

Knows Art Ideas Form Knowing Painting Depends Everyday

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.”

Long Rooms Knowing Saws Painting Shapes Mountain Long Time Happenings Window Tables Things Happen Landscape Lakes Shells Misty Shingles

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“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

“I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.”

Knows Way Feels Looks Knowing Painting

Author:Danny Fox

“I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.”

Thinking Knowing Painting Not Knowing Think Of You Good Place

Author:Julian Schnabel

“I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.”

Art Father Born Knowing Painting Painter Historian Acceptable Things In Life

Author:Domenico Gnoli