#painting

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

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My painting carries with it the message of pain. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#message #pain #painting

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know

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

#could #exquisite #flower #had #i

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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If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#beauty #could #frame #i #i think

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other. ↗

— Jack Paar

#doing #end #finished #george #george washington

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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