#painting

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#art #bourgeois #came #civil #civil wars

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#every #every time #experience #i #like

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#basically #been #career #continues #few

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#good #good life #itself #life #luxury

The people who love my paintings, that respond to them the most, they're spectators, they're not viewers. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#most #paintings #people #respond #spectators

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#colored #happened #might #painted #painting

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#every #every man #experimental #get #i

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#because #changes #destroying #etc #fear

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#contact #easy #give #give and take #harmony