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“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Giving Stills Lines Space Painting Expression Materials Paint Quests Manuals Still Life Tactile Cubism

Author:Georges Braque

“I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.”

Firsts Stills Turns Given Money Size Canvas Baskets Fisherman Still Life

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

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

“The successful painter is continually painting still life.”

Stills Successful Painting Painter Still Life

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.”

Stills Important Seems Able Found Objects Painting Composition Still Life

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.”

Knows Feels Writing Mean Stills Enough Beautiful Simple Mistake Alive Sake Foolish Divinity Live By Assertion Theological Still Life

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.”

Life Feels Stills Life Is Worth Living Still Life Life Is Worth Living

Author:Alfred Austin

“I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.”

Stills Matter Feelings Painting Musical Drawing Clarity Still Life

Author:Jacob Collins

“The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.”

Doe Stills Home Reach Out Still Life Untruthfulness

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.”

Should Stills Lost Born Fortune Narrative Heroic Epic Sonnet Born Again Still Life

Author:James Fenton