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“In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.”

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Author:Bernard Berenson

“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.”

Ifs Art Values Quality Mystery Painting Harm Feats Irreparable Irreparable Harm

Author:Georges Braque

“The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.”

Important Lasts Form Values Color Painting Important Things Welcome

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.”

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Author:Frank Stella

“You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.”

Stills Values Design Color Painting Drawing

Author:Matt Smith

“The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.”

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Author:John F. Carlson

“A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.”

Values Painting Critical Assessment Intrinsic Value

Author:Robert Genn

“You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.”

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Author:Richard Schmid

“My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.”

Values Painting Drawing Negation

Author:Theodore Robinson

“I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.”

Values Painting Related

Author:Mark Tobey

“Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.”

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Author:Robert Warren

“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.”

“Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.”

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Author:Serena Sutcliffe

“It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness, this doesn't mean I believe there's no kindness in the real world. In fact, what it may mean is that I very much value kindness. Like if you make a painting in which only greens are allowed, it wouldn't mean you don't believe in blue.”

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Author:George Saunders

“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”

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Book:The Painters of Modern Life

Source: The Painters of Modern Life

“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”

Way Values Enemy Pieces Creation Painting Goes On Garden Passing Passings Useless Sculpture Gardener Parting Time Passing Slippery Time Passes Time Goes On Countdown

Book:My Garden (Book)

Source: My Garden (Book)

“In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.”

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Author:John Dyer Baizley

“Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on the wall and you're looking at it. It's the same with your car. You're using it, so it goes down in value but you've used it.”

Art Sometimes Used Values Car Painting Wall

Author:Lemar

“A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.”

Values Painting Cost Increase Sells Shocking

Author:Damien Hirst

“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.”

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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

“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.”

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Author:Stephen Beal

“In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are of deities or Buddhas, and they try to send a message of the value of the spiritual.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“It is an unfortunate fact that great and foolish excess can come into prices of common stocks in the aggregate. They are valued partly like bonds, based on roughly rational projections of use value in producing future cash. But they are also valued partly like Rembrandt paintings, purchased mostly because their prices have gone up, so far.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.”

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Author:Lewis Mumford

“I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley