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I painted with acrylic paint, and the reason
why I went to oil was mainly because I didn’t
control it. I was looking for the insecurity
of it. I mean, I might have found another
reason later, but at that moment, the reason
was I was looking for the insecurity.
::: Albert
Oehlen :::
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom
is such an abstract word, but it's all we
need.
::: Ai
Weiwei :::
The act of painting is about one heart telling
another heart where he found salvation.
::: Francisco
Goya :::
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing
to work can take any length of time.
::: Cy
Twombly
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It takes a long time for a man to look like
his portrait.
::: James
McNeill Whistler :::
All true artists, whether they know it or
not, create from a place of no-mind, from
inner stillness.
::: Eckhart
Tolle :::
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically
I'm trying to paint a structured painting
full of controlled, and therefore potent,
emotion.
::: Euan
Uglow :::
I've never believed in God, but I believe
in Picasso.
::: Diego
Rivera :::
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm
not painting. It's in the subconscious.
::: Andrew
Wyeth :::
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to
me that no one in the world has ever made
something this beautiful and important.
::: M.C.
Escher :::
I am essentially a painter of the kind of
still life composition that communicates a
sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which
I have always valued above all else.
::: Giorgio
Morandi :::
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful
attempt to put on to canvas what is in front
of him, but one who tries to create something
which is, in itself, a living thing.
::: William
Dobell :::
The holy grail is to spend less time making
the picture than it takes people to look at
it.
::: Banksy
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Our society is run by insane people for insane
objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs
for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to
be put away as insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it.
::: John
Lennon
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The music that really turns me on is either
running toward God or away from God. Both
recognize the pivot, that God is at the center
of the jaunt.
::: Bono
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There's no retirement for an artist, it's
your way of living so there's no end to it.
::: Henry
Moore :::
You come to nature with all her theories,
and she knocks them all flat.
::: Renoir
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The people who weep before my pictures are
having the same religious experience I had
when I painted them. And if you, as you say,
are moved only by their color relationships,
then you miss the point!
::: Mark
Rothko :::
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is
more logical and scientific and makes you
worry about gravity.
::: Damien
Hirst :::
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
::: Rumi
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the
divine perfection.
::: Michelangelo
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
::: Jean
Michel Basquiat :::
Man can't do without God. Just like you're
thirsty, you have to drink water. You just
can't go without God.
::: Bob
Marley :::
O great creator of being grant us one more
hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
::: Jim
Morrison :::
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