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“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.”

Way Giving Two Spirit Progress Color Painting Materials Paint Sensations Progression

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.”

May Lasts Progress Painting Reactions Related Continuation

Author:Sean William Scott

“Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!”

Years Wells Results Progress Changed Painting One Day Ten Yellow Palette

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.”

Progress Painting Edges

Author:Kazuaki Tanahashi

“I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.”

I Can Done Progress Share Painting Solitude Dialogue

Author:Ken Danby

“There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.”

Want Should Humans Form Humanity Progress Painting Spite Human Form

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“Painting is a slow process; it takes time to get there, you learn little by little and always want the next painting to be better than the last. For me, success is about this, seeing the slow progress in my work.”

Want Littles Lasts Next Process Progress Seeing Painting Take Time It Takes Time Slow Progress

Author:Ali Banisadr

“In your works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.”

Trying Form Individual Voice Destiny Progress Painting Independent Composition Uncertain Independent Life

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.”

People World Looks Littles Book Soul Strong Progress Design Painting Flower Garden Tables Details Symbols Cherish Bathroom Soap Interior Design

Author:Charlotte Moss

“I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.”

World Art Done Feelings Eye Form Growing Progress Modern Painting Photography Related Sculpture Tempo Modern Science Best Art

Book:Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs

Source: Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs