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Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.


Brian Eno


#becomes #ceases #condition #disappearing #enters

I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City.


Bob Kane


#art #batman #city #i #i am

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.


Henry Flynt


#abstract #avant-garde #expressionism #harvard #i

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.


Lee Krasner


#inner #inseparable #into #man #moves

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.


Voltaire


#because #brought #cannot #colors #contrary

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.


Andy Warhol


#asked #finally #friend #how #i

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.


Andy Warhol


#am #andy #andy warhol #behind #films

Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.


Edward Weston


#active #acts #age #bodies #decisively

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.


Peter Wright


#i #never #painting #pallet #school

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.


Philip Guston


#anywhere #come #desire #directly #even






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