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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great start. I…
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Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is…
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Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and…
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.…
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the…
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Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.
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Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what…
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Art is the highest form of hope.
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My paintings are wiser than I am.
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To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable…
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I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture…
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
— A. S. Byatt
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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.
— Eugene Delacroix
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than…
— Julia Cameron
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
— Alexander Pope
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
— Jackson Pollock
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The mind paints before the brush.
— James Ellis
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
— Eugenio Montale
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
— Peter Max
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design…
— Paul Cezanne
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