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“People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Made Two Whole Film Certain Walks Minutes Havens Painting Consumed Gallery Down Time

Author:Julie Mehretu

“Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.”

Giving Whole Morning Painting Health Dinner Excellent Appetite Riding Abraham

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.”

Should Whole Reality Choices Given Painting Features Capture Realistic Realism Prominence

Author:Alain de Botton

“In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or music or poetry, but the kind of art that creates a whole world in itself and in that world we see ourselves reflected and see our religious life perfected.”

World Kind Art Whole Religious Painting Absence Whole World Redemption Organized Vehicle Organized Religion Religious Life

Author:Roger Scruton

“Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.”

Want Trying Kind I Can Ideas Whole Form Certain Education Painting Masters Activity Structure Leap Composition Inhuman

Author:Philip Guston

“In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.”

Whole Inspiration Hours Doubt Painting Whole Life Enthusiasm Torture

Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a whole. When that happens, I feel I've accomplished something useful.”

People Want Feels Whole Happens Possibility Painting Accomplished

Author:Wolf Kahn

“Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic. It should represent the whole of your personality, I guess, so if somebody is a sincere painter or an ironic painter, then they're just bullshitting the audience and presenting only an idealized version of themselves.”

Ifs Want Should Whole Audience Painting Personality Versions Painter Sincere Ironic Drag Earnest Presenting Holistic

Author:Joe Bradley

“My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.”

Giving Looks Whole Term Alive Painting Ambition Mark Surface Constructs Intervals My Ambition

Author:Andrew Forge

“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”

Men World Writing Children Has Beens Art Real Whole Joy Artist Universe Born Religious Love Is Subjects Painting Birth Art Is Whole World Impulse Non Religious

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.”

Persons Whole Joy Fun Painting Mess Bother Delicious Surroundings

Author:Mervyn Levy

“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Should Art Hard Whole Form Force Mistake Taken Four Century Objects Painting Perspective Tradition Credit Disappear Renaissance Imposing Beholder Ghastly Redress Cezanne

Author:Georges Braque

“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”

People Ifs Knows Humans May Whole My Own Conditions Loneliness Painting Communication Reflection Human Condition Lack Of Communication

Author:Edward Hopper

“Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.”

Way Want Whole White Brain Technology Changed Painting Wall Projects What You Want Versions Dimensions Visualizing White Walls

Author:Jim Rowe

“Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.”

Knows Persons Whole Artist Painting Drawing Whole Person

Author:Joseph C Zinker

“When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.”

Whole Painting Mythology Apples Legends Adam Snakes Adam And Eve

Author:Mary Pratt