#paint

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#daily #does #miracle #paint #pleasant

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

#aim #art #compromised #create #decoration

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

— Frank Stella

#just #out #painting #sculpture #somewhere

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

#against #become #best #gestures #had

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

#any #get #i #laying #like

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life. ↗

— John French Sloan

#condemned #eager #energy #every #good

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people who are determined to get into work. Who, with the right help are desperate to get off benefits, support their family and set an example for their children. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#benefits #children #come #dependent #desperate

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#description #every #formal #german #had

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. ↗

— Thomas Couture

#drinker #idiotic #man #only #painted