"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."

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"Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it."

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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,

"I found I have to stay painting."

Alan Bean, American Astronaut

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

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"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."

People

"I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area."

Music

"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."

Time

"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting."

Painting

"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."

Responsibility

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."

Quality

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."

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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."

"I found I have to stay painting."

"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."

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"You begin with the possibilities of the material."

"I got so I was really just sick of sculpture."

"Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically."

"A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper."

"I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area."

"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965."

"Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting."

"I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else."

"And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary."

"But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable."