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“In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.”

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Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential.”

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Author:Robert Motherwell

“In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.”

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Book:Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.”

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Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.”

Art Simple Successful Painting Materials Productions Plus Equations Supplies

Author:Robert Genn

“To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.”

Knows Firsts Wanted Simple Answers Painting Finished Finishing

Author:James Elkins

“This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.”

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.”

“I had so many ideas that I wanted to get out at once that it led to simple little drawings and paintings.”

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Author:Neil Farber

“I do very, very, very simple, skimpy doodles, nothing too committed. Because people tend to fall in love if they like it - if you color it in and they like it, then they want exactly those colors, even if they were just indications. You really have to do it as simple as possible so they can concentrate on the idea and composition. And then all of the energy goes into making the final piece. And the final piece can be anything - it can be a drawing, a painting, a collage - and usually, it's obvious what that should be. Usually, the idea dictates what medium you use.”

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Author:Dave McKean

“Well, I have a very simple method of painting.”

Wells Simple Painting Method

Author:Edward Hopper

“Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.”

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Author:Chai Lu

“Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.”

Simple Painting Photography Oil Mediums Marble

Author:John Gossage

“I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.”

I Can Stuff Simple Painting Piano Classical Music

Author:Danny Fox

“There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.”

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Author:Garry Winogrand