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“Painting, like passion, is a living voice.”

Passion Voice Painting

Book:Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

“Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.”

Passion Speak Voice Painting

Book:Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

Source: Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews

“Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.”

“Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.”

Wells Art Poetry Passion Powerful Painting Dominion Obscurity

Book:The Portable Edmund Burke

Source: The Portable Edmund Burke

“One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.”

People Doe Art Passion Emotion Painting Painter Playwright

Author:Creed Bratton

“When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.”

Passion Pleasure Painting Difficulty Paint Ageless

Author:Francis Bacon

“Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation.”

Men Art Used Passion Objects Painting Music Is Architecture Contemplation Sculpture Man And Nature

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.”

Trying Children Night Passion Sound Space Emotion Behinds Impossible Painting Happenings Surprise Paint Rings Bars Breasts Lions Scream Tigers Rockets Chunks

Author:Karel Appel

“Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.”

Art Bigs Passion Middle Creation Painting Art Is Standing

Author:Michele Cassou