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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

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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ↗

— Peter Brook

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I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance. ↗

— Jerry Harrison

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Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half. ↗

— Lorenz Hart

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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ↗

— Claude Monet

#am #become #being #flowers #following

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand. ↗

— Berthe Morisot

#hand #painters #real #their #understand

I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it. ↗

— Michael Jackson

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