"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

Painting, Paris, Present, Research

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"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."

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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

Kit Williams, British Author

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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."

Joni Mitchell, Canadian Musician

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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Artist

Painting, Art, Darkness, Light, Creativity

"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."

Janet Malcolm, American Writer

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"Through a painting we can see the whole world."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

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"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."

Jackson Pollock, American Artist

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"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."

Giotto di Bondone, Italian Artist

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"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture."

Robert Musil, Austrian Writer

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"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Russian Actor

Painting, Perspective, Sound, Speech

"I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting."

Les Claypool, American Musician

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"Vision is the true creative rhythm."

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"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."

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"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."

Consciousness, Eye, Mind, Senses

"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."

Perception, Understanding

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

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"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm."

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"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."

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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."

"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."

"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."

"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."

"Through a painting we can see the whole world."

"I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting."

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour."

"What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture."

"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes."

"I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting."

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"Vision is the true creative rhythm."

"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."

"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."

"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm."

"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

"Nature engenders the science of painting."

"Light in Nature creates the movement of colors."

"In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory."