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“The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.”

Reason Running Painting Thread

Book:An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

“I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.”

People Firsts Home Running Found Fire Painting Importance Testament

Author:Robert Genn

“As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.”

Persons Made Running Young Painting Materials Demand Studios Favors Fixed Addresses Stability No Money Spatial

Author:David Salle

“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

Knows Men Way Want Looks Ideas Country Running Past House Know How Generations Painting Revolution Kings Garden Army Factories Regimes Estates Pointing Mistress Souvenirs Country Houses

Author:Peter Weiss

“I was pretty impressed during the opening of one of my shows, when the five-year-old daughter of a well-known movie actress took a running jump at one of my paintings, like she was diving into a swimming pool. I preferred to treat her impulse as a compliment rather than insult. Sadly she hurt herself more than the painting.”

“It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.”

Trying Long Sometimes Matter Enough Use Home Running Feet Painting Tables Seconds Canvas Strokes Brushes Erase Assistants Home Run Methodology Rigs Brush Strokes

Author:James Nares

“Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.”

Thinking Art Running Games Influence Changed Painting Pathways Warhol Rubens

Author:Jenny Saville

“I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying painting ran its course after the Renaissance. Punk is an idea. It's freedom. And it'll be around 200 years from now for the people who want it.”

People Want Years Ideas Running Courses Painting Critics Philosopher Arguing Journalist Ran Punk Renaissance

Author:Patti Smith

“I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.”

Running Painting Application Thread

Author:John Piper

“I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.”

Running Desire Fun Painting Wall

Author:Frances Stark

“While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.”

May Running Actors Ability Acting Leader Painting Painter Runners Great Leader Great Actors Leadership Potential

Book:Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

“We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.”

Needs Mean Long Running Animal Painting Mathematics Distance Long Distance Superfluous Distance Running Long Distance Running

Author:Freeman Dyson