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* Featured Quote *
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas
I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love
which is born of slow comprehension.
--Joan Miro ____________________________________________________
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Francis Bacon
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. Learn more about Francis Bacon! Link to http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon_links.htm
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Jean Michel Basquiat
Since I was 17 I thought I might be a star. I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist, or I'd draw a ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect spiderman.
...learn more about Jean Michel Basquiat
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Chuck Close
I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.
I think a painter looking at a painting sees the image,
but they also see how the image was constructed.
...learn more about Chuck Close
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Edgar Degas
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly
plain you end up boring people.
...learn more about Edgar Degas
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Philip Guston
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment
arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the
paint falls into positions that feel destined.
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Keith Haring
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.
...learn more about Keith Haring
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Paul Klee
Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I
have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of
me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter.
...learn more about Paul Klee...
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Georgia O'Keeffe
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
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John Olsen
Art is not so much talent as character.. it's what you are,
the qualities of the person.
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Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
...learn more about Pablo Picasso
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Robert Rauschenberg
I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was
important for me to see whether I was working abstractly
because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was
doing it out of choice.
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Gerhard Richter
I have to have a mental picture, an image, to start.
I never reach this image, but it's good to begin with it.
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Mark Rothko
It was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes. But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it.
The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time
from point to point, will be toward clarity.. toward the
elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the
idea.. and the idea and the observer.. To achieve this
clarity is inevitably to be understood.
...learn more about Mark Rothko
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James Rosenquist
I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil schmeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.
...learn more about James Rosenquist
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Tom Waits
I've become more comfortable, knowing that I can sleep
until two and hang out until ten in the morning and don't
have to worry about losing my job. But I'm not a big star.
I'm not even a twinkle.. I'm just a rumour.
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Andy Warhol
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.
...learn more about Andy Warhol
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Vincent VanGogh
You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same
time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do,
and it will probably be color.
...learn more about Vincent VanGogh
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Paul Cezanne
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