#painting

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#came #having #history #hurt #knowing

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush. ↗

— Dawn French

#been #fabulous #had #i #kate

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#elaborate #end #like #manner #only

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#beautiful paintings #deny #did #i #just

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.
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— Jarod Kintz

#family #mom #mother #motherwell #painting

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. ↗

— Corita Kent

#each #get #harmony #inside #kind

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? ↗

— Franz Kline

#any #come #does #emotions #final

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures. ↗

— Edwin Henry Landseer

#buy #i #i do #knew #much