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I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist,… — Helen Frankenthaler
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line… — Piet Mondrian
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because… — Georgia O'Keeffe
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention… — Paul Cezanne
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my… — Joan Miro
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. — Paul Gauguin
I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts. — Chuck Close
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. — Agnes Martin
I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the… — Agnes Martin
My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think. — Agnes Martin
People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. — Pablo Picasso
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. — Joan Miro
From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also… — George W. Bush
I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius — Grace Hartigan
In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure. — Aristotle
Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend… — Paul Cezanne
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the… — William Shakespeare
When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake.… — Rajneesh
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.… — Rajneesh
Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of creativity. The only… — Rajneesh

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