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• I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

  Vincent van Gogh

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Painting, Beautiful, Inspiration

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting, Creative, Artist

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Museum, Painting

• The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting, Eventually

• If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

  Dawn French

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting

• The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from may house in Hawaii.

  Buffy Sainte Marie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hand, House, Painting

• The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

  Buffy Sainte Marie

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enough, Painting

• Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

  Bridget Riley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spiritual, Values, Painting

• A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

  Paul Scofield

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting

• I’m 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

  Fred Durst

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Painting

• But, after all, the aim of art is to create space – space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

  Frank Stella

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Create, Painting, Subjects

• When I’m painting the picture, I’m really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don’t get any thrill out of laying it out.

  Frank Stella

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Picture, Painting, Technique

• I was worried in the ’80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

  Frank Stella

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Painting, Worried

• A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

  Frank Stella

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting, Somewhere

• In the middle 1940s… I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

  Bill Dixon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting

• I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting

• I have sworn to die painting.

  Paul Cézanne

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  Tags in Painting

• I want to die painting.

  Paul Cézanne

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  Tags in Painting

• Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.

  Paul Cézanne

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting

• It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Painting