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“What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.”

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Author:Claude Monet

“Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.”

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Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.”

Next One Thing Painting

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.”

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Author:Frank Stella

“If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.”

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Author:Peter Doig

“Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.”

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Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“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

“Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.”

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Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.”

Want Kind Light Space One Thing Color Painting All Kinds Gentle Tragic Gestures Possessed Brutal Soar Joyous Possessing Sinking Axes Streaming

Author:Elaine de Kooning