#painting

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky. ↗

— William Merritt Chase

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I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. ↗

— Chuck Close

#bigger #color #colors #could #did

I like the transience of Klimt paintings. ↗

— Steve Coogan

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I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy-three I have at last caught every aspect of nature–birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further and I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life. - from Hokusai’s ‘The Art Crazy Old Man ↗

— Hokusai Katsushika

#drawing #painting #age

...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart. ↗

— Amy Tan

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I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. ↗

— John Dyer

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I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard. ↗

— George Eads

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