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She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life! ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction. ↗

— Françoise Gilot

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Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

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Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. ↗

— Alice Neel

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It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. ↗

— Linda Olsson

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Your mind is a canvas, your experiences are the paint colors and your actions are the brushes that show the art in you. ↗

— Louise Philippe Dulay

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I never look at a painting and ask, "Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?" It's just a painting. ↗

— Scott McClanahan

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On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT. ↗

— John Lanchester

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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. ↗

— Wayne Thiebaud

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