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Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.


Rudolf Arnheim


#art #differ #good #good art #household

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.


J. G. Ballard


#i #i think #more #nothing #painter

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.


Frank Auerbach


#carpet #corner #down #each #hanging

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.


Lynda Barry


#always #back #behind #cartoonist #cartoons

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.


Robert Delaunay


#i #i do #ideal #ideal world #into

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.


Paul Cezanne


#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.


Jon Favreau


#architect #authors #being #build #buildings

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.


Jane Campion


#again #being #better #did #economic

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 best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.


Balthus


#best #best way #his #known #let us






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