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“Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.”

Men Wells Action Poor Results Figures Produce Painting Masters Embrace Fortuitous

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it.”

Thinking Writing Years Morning Special Produce Painting Fool Decided Experience Tricks Articles Masterpiece Solidity

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.”

Produce Painting Painter Illumination

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!”

Ifs Want Writing Art Millions Produce Painting Materials Raises Dollars Pursue My Time Sculpture Million Dollars Motion Pictures

Author:Orson Welles

“It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.”

Real Results Produce Strange Painting Approach Aspect Accidents Holes Triumph Favour Pits

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.”

World Should Wells Looks Shows Reality Imagination Information Produce Taught Painting Profession Painter Comparison Poetic Anxious

Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”

Should Art Ideas Artist Pieces Magic Produce Painting Internals Submit Vulgar Distrust Spectators Identical

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.”

Giving Art Pleasure Greater Produce Painting Imitation Lively True Knowledge Best Nature

Book:The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life

Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life

“I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.”

Persons Earth Produce Painting Normal Draws Fingers Down To Earth

Author:Marion Bartoli

“I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.”

Way Should Bigs Together Beautiful Young Next Strong Produce Painting Direct Weak Ugly Contrary Narrative Contrast Vary

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.”

Action Courses Produce Painting Poet Intention Endeavour

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Many artists, having assimilated the Conceptualists' explorations to varying degrees, have reused the painterly model and use photography, quite consciously and systematically, to produce works that stand alone and exist as photographic paintings.”

Use Artist Produce Painting Degrees Photography Models Exploration Stand Alone

Author:Jean-Francois Chevrier

“You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.”

Happened Produce Painting Discovery Speed Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism

Author:Michael Snow