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Painting Quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
- When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in…
- Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
- Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
- To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when…
- When you have made a good painting, don't do another like it, but remember the process, what you did, what you were thinking and feeling.
- When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.
- When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.
- If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
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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