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This
month's fine
artist profile is of the contemporary
still life artist Robert Chunn. His artist
interview and still
life paintings are now online.
+ "Still lifes are always ready
to pose. They don't talk or get tired or need
to eat. They possess all the qualities of
form and color that are needed to keep a painter
occupied for the rest of his life."
::: Robert
Chunn
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but
the gift is nothing without work.
::: Emile
Zola :::
The most important thing for me is the direct
observation of nature in its light-filled
existence.
::: August
Macke
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A painter paints the appearance of things,
not their objective correctness, in fact he
creates new appearances of things.
::: Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner :::
All true artists, whether they know it or
not, create from a place of no-mind, from
inner stillness.
::: Eckhart
Tolle :::
I'm not trying to make paintings look like
photos. I want to make paintings using photos
as a reference, the way painters did when
photography was first invented.
::: Peter
Doig :::
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism
of visual forces.. an event rather than an
appearance. These forces can only be tackled
by treating color and form as ultimate identities,
freeing them from all descriptive or functional
roles.
::: Bridget
Riley :::
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 :::
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
::: Scott
Adams :::
A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's
about knocking about in the studio and bumping
into things.
::: Richard
Prince :::
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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I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I
aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of
bodies, as well as create performance art.
::: Spencer
Tunick :::
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced
by another language. I don’t know what
to say about what I paint, really.
::: Balthus
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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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I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not
interested in the relationship of color or
form or anything else. I’m interested
only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy,
ecstasy, doom, and so on.
::: 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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