#painting

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

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I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza. ↗

— Robert Indiana

#being #each #i #i think #long

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time. ↗

— Brian Eno

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The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years. ↗

— Donald Judd

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Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#confusion #done #finished #just #know

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

— Paul Cezanne

#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#art #artists #before #collaborated #colleges

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#nature #object #painting #realizing #sensations

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days. ↗

— Sylvia Kristel

#agents #amsterdam #angeles #both #call

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer. ↗

— Billy Carter

#drinking #good #hard #like #only