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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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"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
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"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
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"Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting."
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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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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery."
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"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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"If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph."
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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."
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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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"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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"Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."
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"One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
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