#painting

I'm working on a very long series of paintings based on desert folklore. ↗

— Terri Windling

#desert #folklore #i #long #long series

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#frankly #go #i #painting #see

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. ↗

— Peter Wright

#making #object #own #painting #picture

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ↗

— Peter Wright

#colour #flooding #front #going #i

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#i #like #me #never #painting

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#began #first #fulltime #gallery #had

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#because #change #furniture #hang #i

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. ↗

— H. R. Giger

#finished #future #i #ideas #maybe

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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