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  • And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable. -- Billy Childish
  • I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. -- Rachel Roy
  • I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. -- Rafael Moneo
  • Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. -- Richard Pousette-Dart
  • Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. -- Edward Hopper
  • All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man! -- Robert Musil
  • I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life. -- Yayoi Kusama
  • Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. -- Max Beckmann
  • Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself. -- LeRoy Neiman
  • My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. -- Hans Hofmann
  • I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing. -- John Dyer
  • The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life. -- Anthony Browne
  • By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. -- Edvard Munch
  • I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. -- Vincent Van Gogh
  • Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo. -- Jerry Saltz
  • My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. -- Anthony Doerr
  • I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. -- Caio Fonseca
  • It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life. -- John Burnside
  • Sometimes a game comes at just the right moment in your life. 'Flower' is beautiful, serene, and a bit of sunshine in a gloomy world. I remember going through a rough spot in my life and turning on 'Flower' for a little break in the day. You fly through luscious landscapes collecting petals and painting the world with life. -- Rob Manuel
  • Painting completed my life. -- Frida Kahlo
  • Dutch painting: daily life is enough. -- Mason Cooley
  • The painting has a life of its own -- Jackson Pollock
  • The successful painter is continually painting still life. -- Charles Webster Hawthorne
  • Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. -- Michael Dolan
  • Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • One must act in painting as in life, directly. -- Pablo Picasso
  • Poetry is to a painting what life is to man. -- Georges Braque
  • And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto. -- Ram Dass
  • Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive. -- Paul Cezanne
  • Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond. -- Rita Mae Brown
  • The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life. -- Tony Curtis
  • Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had -- Francis Bacon
  • Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. -- Herbert Spencer
  • It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. -- Pierre Bonnard
  • Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey. -- Winston Churchill
  • I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. -- Kanye West
  • There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. -- Ram Dass
  • My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves. -- William C. Wright
  • Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. -- Steven Whitney
  • Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? -- Edgar Degas
  • My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. -- Robert Gober
  • Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting. -- Asger Jorn
  • If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next. -- Les Wexner
  • I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting. -- John Piper
  • The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. -- John Dyer
  • The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. -- Barnett Newman
  • Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. -- George Eliot
  • Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. -- Robert Rauschenberg
  • I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people. -- Kehinde Wiley
  • For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. -- Georges Rouault
  • A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork. -- Mary Russell Mitford
  • I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. -- Jackson Pollock
  • In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration. -- Wassily Kandinsky
  • Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings -- George Tooker
  • When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. -- Max Beckmann
  • But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. -- Marie Windsor
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  • Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. -- Herbert Spencer
  • Life is like a painting you reflect the image based on your feeling, emotion, character, attitude and how you made it. -- Daniel Habil
  • To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. -- Benjamin Hoff
  • Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity -- Charles Bukowski
  • A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. -- Ivan Albright
  • Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. -- Henri Matisse
  • Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
  • Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. -- Yann Martel
  • Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life. -- Wolfgang Beltracchi
  • If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting. -- Charlotte Rampling
  • Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer. -- Russell Chatham
  • I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting. -- Beth Orton
  • 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
  • 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
  • You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon. -- Shannon L. Alder
  • 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
  • I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind. -- George W. Bush
  • I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow. -- Erica Jong
  • When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna
  • Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it, -- Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
  • 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
  • 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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