#paint

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#because #being #good #good reason #i

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#enough #explore #facile #find #i

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#familiar #into #itself #looking #painting

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. ↗

— Man Ray

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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#appalling #bohemian #bought #existence #guitars

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#i #like #never #paint #pictures

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. ↗

— Franz Marc

#behind #hidden #inner #look #nature

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#forever #known #mind #paintings #seen

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#himself #make #music #musician #must