#painting

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy. ↗

— Grandma Moses

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My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. ↗

— Cher

#art #buy #come #creative #fantastic

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#concrete #consist #essentially #existing #only

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#forms #ideal #negation #painting #realism

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

#did #i #i see #invention #moral

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#get #i #own #paintings #powerful

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. ↗

— David Hockney

#arrival #bottom #done #early #first

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. ↗

— David Hockney

#drawing #else #everything #just #nothing

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. ↗

— Julio Iglesias

#generation #get #hanging #i #inherits

Painting completed my life. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#life #my life #painting