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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."
"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 John Dyer
"On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France."
"The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea."
"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside."
"Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire."
"During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it is not just a time and place study."
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