#painting

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. ↗

— Fernand Leger

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But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#certain #certain things #collage #committed #dots

I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#color #colors #drawing #guess #hard

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

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If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

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Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#been #goal #never #object #original

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anything #concentrate #few #filmmakers #get

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind. ↗

— Agnes Martin

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One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up. ↗

— Cleo Moore

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Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. ↗

— Cleo Moore

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