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I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers. It's not up to me to make the choice. I have the impression that the time is speading on past me more and more rapidly. I'm like a river that rolls on, dragging with it the trees that grow too close to its banks or dead calves one might have thrown into it or any kind of microbes that develop in it. I carry all that along with me and go on. It's the movement of painting that interests me, the dramatic movement from one effort to the next, even if those efforts are perhaps not pushed to their ultimate end. In some of my paintings I can say with certainty that the effort has been brought to its full weight and its conclusion, because there I have been able to stop the flow of time around me. I have less and less time, and yet I have more and more to say, and what I have to say is,increasingly, something about what goes on in the movement of my thought. I've reached the moment, you see, when the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.


Françoise Gilot


#painting #picasso #life

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.


Harrison Birtwistle


#did #gone #i #i think #music

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.


William Lyon Phelps


#i #painting #raised #start #would

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.


Rebecca Miller


#because #become #every #film-making #funny

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.


Claude Monet


#before #carries #composition #head #his

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.


James Mooney


#after #afternoon #always #begins #commonly

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.


Grandma Moses


#important #important thing #keeping #painting #thing

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.


Robert Motherwell


#behind #european #mask #matter #modern

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.


Karl Pilkington


#came #challenge #did #highlight #home

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.


Steven Pinker


#art #auditory #because #certain #depend






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