Painting Primary Method Bypass

wet-on-wet
practice
has become

well-known
primary method
of painting used

by rapid
fire artists
lighter colours

will usually
mix
with darker
colours

if laid
over top
while wet

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

quote by Frank Zappa
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Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
such a thin line between them
- comic and graphic artists

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

quote by Giacomo Meyerbeer
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

quote by Gyorgy Ligeti
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Art Consumes Flame Immortal Souls

What is the curse of no time
for any artist for all artists?

Art demands time
all consuming time

times of precise reflection
times of informative focus
times of intense productivity
times of perceptive clarity
times of felt vision testimony
times of account sensitivity
times of passion commentary
times of creative outpourings
times of artistic servitude

means art more demands
than a mere pound of flesh

art demands fibres of our being

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

quote by Michelangelo
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Not all sculptors have reached the New Stone Age.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

quote by Patti Smith
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The Painter (Ang Pintor)

The Painter...
He colored the sky
He colored the sea
and even the mountains
and the field.

The Painter...
He colored the roses
and even the birds
and animals
in the farm.

The Painter...
even my life...
He colored.

But the Painter,
I guess no one
have seen Him yet.

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poem by Marites C. Cayetano
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

quote by Igor Stravinsky
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Moonlight is sculpture.

quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

quote by Damien Hirst
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

quote by Carl Sandburg
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So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

quote by Anthony Caro
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

classic quote by Maria Callas
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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

quote by Robert Smithson
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I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

quote by John Dyer
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I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

quote by Freddie Mercury
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Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

quote by John Hart
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