#paint

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

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I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#come #ever #feel #friends #i

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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

— Bridget Riley

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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#appeared #arrangement #arts #creative #culmination

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#arranged #arranging #buy #carefully #chef