#painting

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. ↗

— Balthus

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

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Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. ↗

— David Amram

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I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I dream my painting and I paint my dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#dreams #inspiration #painting #art

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down