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  • If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next. -- Les Wexner
  • You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself. -- Pierre Bonnard
  • Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. -- Truman Capote
  • I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself. -- James Franco
  • All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. -- Otto Dix
  • Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? -- Wassily Kandinsky
  • I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life. -- David Johansen
  • The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work. -- Patti Smith
  • A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. -- Keegan-Michael Key
  • Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. -- Romare Bearden
  • The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue -- Romare Bearden
  • Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself. -- Pierre Soulages
  • Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint. -- Romare Bearden
  • My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself. -- Marina Abramovic
  • You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. -- Robert M. Pirsig
  • To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. -- Philip Guston
  • Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes. -- David Hockney
  • Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself. -- Joan Miro
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