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“When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.”

People Thinking Painting Affair Symbols Erotic

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.”

Born Painting Bird Absurd Symbols Significance Canvas Symbolic Accord

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“When we use numbers we are using symbols, and it is only when we transfer them to life that they become actualities. The same is true with drawing and painting. They are to be learned, not as rules, but as actualities. Then the rules become appropriate.”

Use Numbers Painting Drawing Symbols Appropriate Transfers Actuality Drawing And Painting

Book:The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study

“I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.”

Made Painting Meaningful Symbols

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.”

Language Particular Painting Symbols Viewers

Author:Mike Svob

“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

“The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.”

Two Joy Lying Three Challenges Memories Painting Symbols Translations

Author:Paul Kane