I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

classic quote by Arthur Rubinstein
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

classic quote by Edgar Degas
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I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

quote by Jonathan Davis
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

quote by Simonides
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I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings; and I did it out of spite.

quote by Vincent Gallo
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

classic quote by Edmond de Goncourt
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Soul Paintings

enter hung gallery
my stunning exhibition
walk these displays
all these my paintings

open mouth heart soul
wide wider wider as
I breathe soul paintings
straight into mind fixation

poem by Terence George Craddock
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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

quote by Andrew Wyeth
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Sunlight is painting.

quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

quote by James Franco
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All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

quote by Chuck Close
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art.

quote by Marc Chagall
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

quote by Walter Annenberg
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I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

quote by Kim Weston
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

quote by Barnett Newman
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My Life as Simulacra

Xerox your paintings,
Deposit them in a screen.
Avoid the decay
Of natural processes—
Disintegration.
Preserve your thoughts in this way:
As a copy of
Expression. If that seems cold,
Burn the real paintings for warmth.

poem by Tim Stensloff
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I want to die painting.

quote by Paul Cezanne
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

quote by Viggo Mortensen
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You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same.

quote by Chuck Close
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