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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."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Gustav Klimt
"Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want."
"After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often."
"I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true."
"On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little."
"Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art."
"There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits."
"Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open."
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