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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 Painting Mood Phonograph Seeking Colors Make Does Lines Vibrate Forms Origin Paintings

My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the piano of a famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko, playing an instrument known as a bandura. I remember that one kind of resonated with me; it was always central in the living room. Edward Burtynsky

Me Remember Walls Father Poet Living Our Ukrainian Kind Some Above Piano Instrument Known Always Amateur Were His Famous Oil Central Room Painter Paintings Living Room Playing

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over. Elizabeth Kostova

Love People Sometimes Passion Statue Throw Hysterical Over Arms Because Around Falls Fit Sculpture Paintings Damage

I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space. Ellsworth Kelly

Space Edge Style Differences Similar Color Point Colors Had Between Doing Were Want Literal Wanted Decided Then Certain Sculpture Certain Point Painted Paintings Started Two

'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others. Elvis Mitchell

Others Crises Jonathan Bid His Subject Get Paintings Among

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing. Etel Adnan

Writing Mind Whatever Other Everything Direct Direct Connection Sure Am Doing Linked Done Influence Which Measure Connection Paintings Each

Paintings, people really don't understand... They don't really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house. Faith Ringgold

People Quilt Everybody House Because Understand Get Really Paintings

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

People World Doctors Honestly Everybody Slightly Broker Only Lawyers Had Abstract Until Make Became Because Up Wanted Skewed View Paintings Believed Things World View

Traditional paintings have few figures in them and value negative space. Japanese calligraphy and brush paintings are in black and white. Haiku is the shortest poem form in the world. These are a few examples of a minimalistic aesthetic in Japanese art and culture. Fumio Sasaki

I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities. Garth Risk Hallberg

Thought Cities Had Major Bug Literature Paintings Things

Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space. Gary Hume

You Space Painting Out Some Case Small Take Narrative Huge Up Get Any Often Want Places Fantastic Paintings Museums

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. Georg Baselitz

Generation Father Painting Every Despised Admired More Fact Had Like Because Always Were Precisely In Fact Loved European Paintings Expressionist

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion. Gerald Vizenor

Natural France Had Motion Cave Spain Paintings Even Earliest

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. H. R. Giger

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings. H. R. Giger

People Sometimes See Horrible Only Terrible Paintings Things

Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for. Ha-Joon Chang

Music Art Time Crazy Made Sense Waste Time Living Those Exactly Exactly What Kings Miracle Economic Cathedrals Because Sticks None Still Commissioned Any Human Human Beings Capacity Mud Beings Paintings Waste Things Imagine

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. Ikue Mori

Music Try Painting Books Way Visual Compose More Inspiration Bottom Bottom Line Like Ideas Line Hear Get Maybe Just Want Movies Create Paintings Basically

Certainly I have made comments on American society with the various pictures and have done about nine antiwar paintings. But I did them because I was incorporating my feelings into my work. James Rosenquist

Work Made Feelings Society Nine About Various Pictures Because Comments Antiwar American Did Done Them American Society Certainly Paintings

Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going. Jamie Wyeth

Paradise Reading Lost Seven Bit Dante Most Read Deadly Sins Did Going Then Working Hard Paintings Series Based Milton

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing. Jason Momoa

Love Art Memory Amazing Saw Frank His Paintings

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid! Jemima Kirke

You People Guess Unless Pleased Way Kid Fine Look Always Which Your Paint Paintings Portraits Buying

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