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The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.


Lucian Freud


#completely #drawn #feeling #free #give

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.


Don DeLillo


#painters #art

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.


William Kingdon Clifford


#consciously #create #did #discoverer #discovery

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'


Albert Finney


#blank canvas #canvas #down #front #gregarious

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.


Lucian Freud


#could #feels #his #invests #model

I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.


Rube Goldberg


#another #any #art #boy #every

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.


Ernst Ludwig Kirchner


#appearances #correctness #creates #fact #in fact

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.


Kenneth Koch


#excited #friends #i #interested #little

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing.


Twyla Tharp


#composers #dance #ephemeral #kind #painters

I am obsessed with the process of creation.


Zdzisław Beksiński


#painter #poland #polish #art






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