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Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
Josef Albers

Heart, Curious, Phenomenon

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
John Berger

Actually, Image, However

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Focus, Mean, Acting

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.
Michelle Pfeiffer

Love, Home, Live

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
Giotto di Bondone

Sacred, Voyage, Harbour

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.
Erin Morgenstern

Nice, Writing, Career

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Edvard Munch

Art, Revolution, After

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch

Nothing, Emptiness, Picture

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

Life, Seen, Mood

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan Miro

Character, Give, Means

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
Tom Wolfe

Days, Theory, Frankly

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
Mark Rothko

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
Pharrell Williams

Feeling, Playing, Air

Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann

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

Life, Nature, Experience

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
Martin Mull

Time, Money, Down

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.
Giorgio Armani

Woman, Wanted, Lives

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
Harvey Pekar

Music, Art, Trying

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
Don Van Vliet

Around, Else, Getting

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.
Tony Curtis

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.
Tony Curtis

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
Tony Curtis

Life, Success, Movies

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
Robert Delaunay

Problem, Moment, Research

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Pierre Bonnard

Yourself, Cannot, Invent

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
Andrew Wyeth

Age, Show, York

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
Ray Comfort

Nature, Car, Simple

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones

Cannot, Brings, Plane

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
Robert Smithson

Art, Finished, Habit

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.
Vinny Guadagnino

Enjoy, Almost, Copy

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
Jasper Johns

Experience, Simply, Statement

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