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    The search for this inner truth is the search for beauty. People whose vision does not penetrate beyond the narrow limits of the commonplace, and to whom a cabbage is but a vulgar vegetable, are surprised if they see a beautiful picture painted of one, and say that the artist has idealised it, meaning that he has consciously altered its appearance on some idealistic formula; whereas he has probably only honestly given expression to a truer, deeper vision than they had been aware of. The commonplace is not the true, but only the shallow, view of things. [...] Our moments of peace are, I think, always associated with some form of beauty, of this spark of harmony within corresponding with some infinite source without. [...]. In moments of beauty (for beauty is, strictly speaking, a state of mind rather than an attribute of certain objects [...]) we seem to get a glimpse of this deeper truth behind the things of sense. And who can say but that this sense, dull enough in most of us, is not an echo of a greater harmony existing somewhere the other side of things, that we dimly feel through them, evasive though it is

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    To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!

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    They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model")

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    Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

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    We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.

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    Write the masterpiece that has not been written. Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung. Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted. Create the masterpiece that has not been created.

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    Usually, a "great painter" is a dead painter.

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    You too know that all my eyes see, all I touch with myself, from any distance, is Diego. The caress of fabrics, the color of colors, the wires, the nerves, the pencils, the leaves, the dust, the cells, the war and the sun, everything experienced in the minutes of the non-clocks and the non-calendars and the empty non-glances, is him.

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    Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.

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    [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

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    A painter is a choreographer of space.

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    A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

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    A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

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    A poet is a painter of the soul.

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    Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The painter is telling us something. Just, how do they - what's their syntax? What's their inflection?

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    As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

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    As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

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    why do you paint in the dark' i ask him and he looks not at me but away 'because i cannot bear my own darkness in the light' he is quiet for some time 'but inwardly i am told where there is paint to be and i paint it there in the dark so none can see myself truly burning in the sun

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    A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

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    A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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    Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

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    As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

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    A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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    A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive.

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    Bologna is celebrated for producing popes, painters, and sausage.

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    Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

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    Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

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    Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

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    Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

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    Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

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    Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

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    For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

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    Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?

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    Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

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    I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

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    How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

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    I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

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    I am not a juicy painter.

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    I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

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    I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

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    I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

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    I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

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    I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

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    I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

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    I'd rather be remembered as a famous painter than a famous model, so I'll have to start the ball rolling now.

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    If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

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    If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

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    If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

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    If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

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    I had an amazing instructor, Joseph Gotto , who, as a painter, spoke to me as it - he didn't condescend.

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