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Painting Quotes by Chuck Close
- All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
- I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people…
- Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how…
- I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
- When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method…
- Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
- Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
- Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
- You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting…
- Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.
- I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger…
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- My paintings are rubbish. — David Bailey
- Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. — Ansel Adams
- Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
- I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
- Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
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- I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat