"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame."

Painting,

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"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

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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."

Viggo Mortensen, American Actor

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"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."

Roy Lichtenstein, American Artist

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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."

Robert Delaunay, French Artist

Painting, Paris, Present, Research

"I found I have to stay painting."

Alan Bean, American Astronaut

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Painting, Philosophy, Art, Expression

"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"

Peter Wright, British Celebrity

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"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

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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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"I didn't choose solitude."

Solitude

"It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away."

Ocean

"I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years."

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"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

Movies

"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me."

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"The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake."

Truth

"Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts."

Sky

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

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

"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."

"But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it."

"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."

"I found I have to stay painting."

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

"I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?"

"I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings."

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

Explore more quotes by Klaus Kinski

"I didn't choose solitude."

"It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away."

"I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years."

"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."

"I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me."

"Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it."

"I am dying of hunger."

"But words - words are not enough!"

"The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake."

"Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts."