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“I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.”

Ifs Thinking Crazy Painting Obsession

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.”

Knows Mean Stills Painting Paint Privilege Profession Obsession

Author:Alice Neel

“I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.”

Night Sleep Painting Obsession Day And Night Work Day Fired Up

Author:Jules Olitski

“The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.”

Lying Hate Emotional Painting Intellectual Obsession Compulsion Involvement Deep Love Love Or Hate

Author:Edward Betts

“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.”

Doe Stories Painting Paint Oil Decades Obsession Painter Incomplete Thickness

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is