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Painting Quotes
"Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again."
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"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."
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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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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."
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"A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."
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"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
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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."
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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."
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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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