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  • Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator. -- Seth Godin
  • Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else. -- Seth Godin
  • Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another. -- Seth Godin
  • Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for? -- Camille Pissarro
  • Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally. -- Seth Godin
  • Painting is more important than art. -- Wayne Thiebaud
  • Wine pricing is an art - like painting. -- Joe Bastianich
  • Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. -- Georges Seurat
  • The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable. -- Domenico Gnoli
  • Love is art, not truth. Itâ??s like painting scenery. -- Lorrie Moore
  • What has reason to do with the art of painting? -- William Blake
  • Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. -- Robert Smithson
  • I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting. -- Paul Cezanne
  • Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is. -- Thomas Hoving
  • The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. -- Caio Fonseca
  • I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer. -- Damien Hirst
  • Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. -- Grace Hartigan
  • The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • But where there is no art show, I would still be painting. -- Tony Curtis
  • Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. -- Winston Churchill
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  • There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. -- David Hockney
  • My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art. -- Chantal Sutherland
  • I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting. -- Paul Simonon
  • I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing." -- Harvey Pekar
  • Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting. -- William Wordsworth
  • Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting. -- Dennis Hopper
  • What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool? -- Leon Battista Alberti
  • Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy. -- Gerhard Richter
  • The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete. -- Joseph Plaskett
  • Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art. -- Pablo Picasso
  • The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. -- Michael Leunig
  • Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. -- Gustave Courbet
  • What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. -- Peter Wright
  • If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. -- Armie Hammer
  • The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. -- D.T. Suzuki
  • It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art. -- Philip Pearlstein
  • In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork. -- Brad Holland
  • Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. -- Willem de Kooning
  • The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. -- Walter J. Phillips
  • Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school. -- Caio Fonseca
  • All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity. -- Patrick Swift
  • I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater. -- James Gray
  • Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -- Roy Lichtenstein
  • Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -- Roy Lichtenstein
  • People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is. -- Pablo Picasso
  • I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. -- John Burnside
  • All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing. -- Salman Rushdie
  • Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
  • Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. -- Ray Bradbury
  • There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. -- Robert Breault
  • I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting. -- Shirley Eaton
  • Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match. -- Hulk Hogan
  • There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing. -- Toni Morrison
  • Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. -- Frederick Sommer
  • To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. -- Susan Vreeland
  • Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art. -- Jenny Saville
  • 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. -- Patton Oswalt
  • Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. -- Edmund Burke
  • Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. -- Robert Motherwell
  • And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . -- Albrecht Durer
  • A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness. -- Robert Genn
  • And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art." -- Albrecht Durer
  • And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. -- Albrecht Durer
  • He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion. -- Albrecht Durer
  • More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed. -- Joan Miro
  • For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. -- Shailene Woodley
  • Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion. -- Seth Godin
  • You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever. -- Shooter Jennings
  • Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines. -- Arthur Wesley Dow
  • For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors. -- Domenico Gnoli
  • If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting. -- Marshall McLuhan
  • There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. -- Fernando Botero
  • No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. -- Chris Ware
  • No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. -- Chris Ware
  • If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it. -- Keith Haring
  • You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division. -- Michael Craig-Martin
  • I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment. -- Alex Lifeson
  • Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. -- Kathryn Bigelow
  • My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill. -- Terry Crews
  • Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie. -- Julian Schnabel
  • I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along. -- Banksy
  • There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting. -- Sara Sheridan
  • It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. -- Tom Stoppard
  • The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists. -- Kelly Miller
  • I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life. -- Domenico Gnoli
  • A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. -- Robert McKee
  • It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music. -- Kim Gordon
  • There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through -- Dan Rice
  • Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as mechanical painting machines. -- Edvard Munch
  • I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. -- Sydney Pollack
  • When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. -- Paul Cezanne
  • People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures. -- Gerhard Richter
  • A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting. -- John Baldessari
  • My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. -- Yann Martel
  • Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God. -- Patrick Swift
  • Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century. -- John Guare
  • To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. -- Richard Schmid
  • Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece! -- Al Michaels
  • Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. -- Jacob Nordby
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