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“Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.”

Painting Photography Starting Portraits Chores Tiresome

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Want Mind Ends Sometimes Painting Twenties Paint Starting Things To Do Fifteen Finishing

Book:Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”

Mind Done Facts Artist White Painting Pure Tradition Roots Empty Method Embrace Starting Flying Spots Emptiness Realising Strokes Brushes Penetrate Spontaneity Apparitions

Author:Antoni Tapies

“When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.”

Novel Modern Honesty Movement Painting Notion Starting Enormous Painter Distinguished Playwright Bourgeois Baudelaire

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.”

Knows Needs Sometimes Done Easy Painting Skills Starting Painter Finishing Finishing It

Author:Elizabeth Neel

“Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.”

May Ideas Jobs Individual Grows Painting Starting Abstract Propositions Starting Point

Author:Nigel Cooke