Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
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When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Throng'd around her magic cell, Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, Possest beyond the Muse's painting.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face as soon as of a mind. POPE: Satire vi., Line 268. Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with ag
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We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. From the Joy of Painting
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Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some Godmade object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a stilllife painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.
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That's not painting, that's Paint-By-Numbers. That's therapy for the artistically challenged. That's what they prescribe for cretins in dayrooms.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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