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Painting Quotes by Richard Diebenkorn
- All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
- All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression…
- In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing…
- I want painting to be difficult to do.
- I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to…
- I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well…
- Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting…
- I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered…
- When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great…
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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
- I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs.… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- 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