#paint

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted. ↗

— Gotye

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Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#art form #dance #drive #every #focus

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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