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The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. -- N.D. Wilson
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
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
Through a painting we can see the whole world. -- Hans Hofmann
The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world. -- Caio Fonseca
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings. -- Jerry Saltz
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -- Roy Lichtenstein
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings. -- Alber Elbaz
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. -- Samuel Johnson
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. -- Rebecca Miller
Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. -- Jerry Saltz
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
There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing. -- Susan Vreeland
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe. -- Conor Oberst
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. -- Jasper Johns
Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world. -- Callum Keith Rennie
If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most. -- Damian Loeb
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage. -- Marcel Duchamp
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. -- Frank Stella
I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways. -- Dana Schutz
There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency. -- Richard Phillips
Through a painting, we can see the whole world. -- Hans Hofmann
I do believe that painting can change the world. -- David Hockney
My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world. -- Robert Lyn Nelson
There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting, -- Robert Rauschenberg
The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires. -- Tim Fargo
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting -- Willem de Kooning
Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky -- Yoko Ono
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world. -- Jeffrey Smart
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Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in. -- Henry Moore
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. -- Joan Miro
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. -- Chuck Jones
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers. -- Claude Monet
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. -- John Constable
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world. -- Michael Leunig
If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. -- Ernst Gombrich
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. -- Pablo Picasso
I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world. -- Robert Motherwell
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself. -- Richard Peck
Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesnt look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. -- Roy Lichtenstein
Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. -- Grace Hartigan
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money. -- James Gleick
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world. -- Kay WalkingStick
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent. -- Andrew Graham-Dixon
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares. -- Susan Sontag
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color. -- Mary Cassatt
The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore. -- Squeak Carnwath
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association. -- Robert Genn

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