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I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
Painting, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
What has Reasoning to do with the Art of Painting?
The painting of sounds, noises and smells calls for: 1. Reds, rrrrreds, the rrrrrreddest rrrrrrreds that shouuuuuuut. 2.Greens, that can never be greener, greeeeeeeeeeeens that screeeeeeam, yellows, as violent as can be: polenta yellows, saffron yellows, brass yellows.
This is the truth! In order to achieve this total painting, whichrequirestheactive cooperationof all thesenses, a painting which is a plastic state of mind of the universal, you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises and smells!
A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.
Painters who arenotcolourists produce illumination and not painting.
Remember that a paintingbefore it is a battlehorse, a nude woman, or someanecdoteis essentiallya flat surface covered with colours assembled ina certainorder.
Theartof painting cannot betrulyjudgedsave bysuchas are themselves good painters; from others verily it is hidden even as a strange tongue.
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio n picto rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca strame el goce de la carne, satisfa ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
You maydream freely whenyou listen tomusic as well as when you look at painting.When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.
I do not find any difference between painting and sculpture except that the sculptor pursues his work with greater physical fatigue than the painter and the painter pursues his with greater mental fatigue.
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.
Your Lordship sends to tell me that I should paint and have no doubts. I answer that painting is done with the brain, not the hands.
Inmyopinionpainting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
It was as if a veil had been torn suddenly away; I had understood, I had grasped what painting could be.
Alas! My dear sir, the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.Painting has been a smiling mistresstomany, but shehasbeenacrueljilttome.
Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his headeverything he paints is both an homage and a critique.
The highest, the most logical, the purest and strongest form of painting is the mural It is, too, the most disinterested form, for it cannot be made a matter of privategain; itcannot be hiddenaway for thebenefit of a certain privileged few. It is for the people. It is for.
No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
Painting is nothing but a representation of surfaces and solidsforeshortenedorenlarged, and putontheplaneof the picture in accordance with the fashion in which the real objects seen by the eye appear on this plane.
On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be 'in'the painting.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.
There is something in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.You come to nature withyour theories, and nature knocksthemall flat.
Tell me, frankly, what ought to remain of Lenin: an art bronze, oil portraits, etchings, watercolours, his secretary's diary, his friends'memoirs or a file of photographs taken of him at work and rest, archives of his books, writing pads, notebooks, shorthand reports, films, phonograph records? I don't think there's any choice. Art hasno place inmodernlife Everycultured modern man must wage war against art, as against opium. Photograph and be photographed!
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
One does not walk around a statue any more than one walks around a painting, because one does not walk around a figure to receive an impression from it.Nothing is material in space.
Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.
According to Pliny, painting was brought to Egypt by Gyges of Lydia; for he says that Gyges once saw his own shadow cast by the light of a fire and instantly drew his own outline on the wall with a piece of charcoal.
Good painting is like good cooking: it can be tasted, but not explained.
I get excited by the shape of a person's nose, the tone of their eyes, or the way their back looks when they're turned away from me. That's my reason for painting.
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