#paint

The more I paint the more I like everything. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#art form #audience #could #extraordinary #film

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dreams #inspiration #painting #art

Painters must speak through paint, not through words. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#paint #painters #speak #through #words

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#because #i #love #loved #me

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. ↗

— David Bailey

#before #everything #extraordinary #good #imagination

I did painting before I did photography. ↗

— David Bailey

#did #i #painting #photography

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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