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“My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Art Would Be Turns Painting Machines Asking Aim Mere Satisfied More Time Enthusiastic Incomplete Collectors

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.”

Has Beens Problem Turns Painting Structure Abstract Permission No Problem

Author:Robert Motherwell

“I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.”

Mind Wanted Lasts Turns Space Painting Chapters

Author:George W. Bush

“He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.”

Art Would Be Joy Turns Natural Painting Delight Painter Compulsion

Author:Albrecht Durer

“Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.”

Light Moving Form Turns Space Painting Balance Lucky Draws Relation Paint Anxious Surprising Actuality Methodology Lucky Day

Book:The drawings of Philip Guston

Source: The drawings of Philip Guston

“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Feelings Turns Freedom Painting Depends

Book:Blue Dog Man

Source: Blue Dog Man

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

People Thinking Looks Light Eye Turns Rooms Teach Talent College Color Painting Exercise Standing Shoulders Bunch Release Editors Canvas Brushes Slap Dip

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

Knows Reality Pain Suffering Turns Grief Know How Taught Painting Scene Experience Court Edges Mood Shallow Counterfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.”

Ifs Would Be Beautiful Film Moving Turns Sound Strange Painting Wind Unique Mouths Mood Layers Portraits Captured Mona Lisa Celluloid

Author:David Lynch

“Photography is painting with light! The blurs, the spots, those are errors! But the errors are part of it, they give it poetry and turn it into painting. And for that you need as bad a camera as possible! If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world.”

Ifs World Want Needs Giving Whole Light Turns Painting Photography Cameras Errors Whole World Spots Blur

Author:Miroslav Tichy

“To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.”

Problem Turns Literature Painting Poet Painter Discussion

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.”

Turns Black Painting Size Pounds Shaving Mortar Splinters Charcoal

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.”

Inspirational Art Philosophy Turns Literature Modern Painting Revolutionary Daily Life Realistic

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.”

Art Moments Values Turns Half Painting Intense Ideology Works Of Art Turn-on Subservient Half Truth Subservience

Book:The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

Source: The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

“The thing I'm obsessed with is really great bad paintings. I have a storage locker full of them and I want to give them their own museum. You don't even know who these artists are - you can buy them at garage sales, antique stores and places like that. They're brilliant because they were done with the intention of being great, but the artist sort of made a wrong turn. Some of them are hilarious and I can't get enough of them.”

Knows Want Giving Made I Can Done Enough Artist Turns Painting Intention Stores Brilliant Obsessed Museums Really Great Garage Antiques Lockers Storage Wrong Turn Garage Sale

Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.”

People Knows Trying Wells Mean Art Seems Would Be School Turns Painting Ideals Art School

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.”

World Kind Children Turns Wife Seeing Painting Moon Sitting My Wife Beach Buddy Old Friends Bonfire

Author:Pierce Brosnan