"I found I have to stay painting."

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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Painting,

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Painting, Reputation

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Painting, Art, Criticism, Humor

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Painting, Philosophy, Art, Expression

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

Jackson Pollock, American Artist

Painting, Realism, Right

"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

Balthus, French Artist

Painting,

"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

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

Tom Wolfe, American Journalist

Painting, Theory

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

Philip Guston, American Artist

Painting,

"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

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"It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon."

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"I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away."

Time

"I can remember walking on the moon."

Moon

"But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not."

Moon

"The moon is very rugged."

Moon

"One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair."

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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting."

"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

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

"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."

"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."

"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."

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"I found I have to stay painting."

"I have the nicest life in the world."

"I think everything depends on money."

"But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult."

"It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon."

"I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away."

"I can remember walking on the moon."

"But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not."

"The moon is very rugged."

"One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair."