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I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.


Nikki Reed


#come #ever #feel #friends #i

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.


Bridget Riley


#archaic #depends #i #i think #inevitably

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.


Constantin Stanislavski


#deeper #defined #does #foreground #important

Nature engenders the science of painting.


Robert Delaunay


#nature #painting #science

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.


Dan Fogelberg


#arts #college #coming #degree #fine

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.


Georges Rouault


#forget #laugh #life #me #night

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.


Jasper Johns


#business #conscious #i #ideas #imply

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.


Jasper Johns


#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.


Jasper Johns


#art #artists #aware #birds #carolina

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.


Jasper Johns


#i #manipulation #most #painting #power






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