#painting

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#intended #old #paintings #read #sure

Writing and Painting are the same for me. ↗

— Peter Malkin

#painting #same #writing

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#art #art college #attractive #canvas #college

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

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I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

#banker #day #hated #himself #i

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#going #here #i #just #mean

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#black #black and white #could #excited #give

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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