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Arshile Gorky
: You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
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Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.
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Charles Dickens :
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There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
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Oscar Wilde :
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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Frida Kahlo :
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best
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Phil Ochs :
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The painter paints his brushes black Through the canvas runs a crack Portrait of the pain never answers back.
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Samuel Johnson :
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I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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Samuel Johnson :
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
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Yves Klein :
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Sponges are the portraits of the readers of my monochromes who,after having travelled in the blue of my paintings,came back totally impregnated in sensibility like the sponges.
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John Singer Sargent :
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I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all right for a man in his youth, but after forty I believe that manual dexterity deserts one, and, besides, the color-sense is less acute. Youth can better stand the exactions of a personal kind that are inseparable from portraiture. I have had enough of it.
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Benjamin Haydon :
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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Oliver Cromwell :
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
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Arshile Gorky:
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I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
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(Stuart Davis).. .. is one of but few, who realized his canvas as a.. .. two-dimensional surface plane. (1931)
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Arshile Gorky:
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I was with Cézanne for a long time, and now naturally I am with Picasso
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I like the heat the tenderness the edible the lusciousness the song of a single person the bathtub full of water to bathe myself beneath the water.. ..I like the wheatfields the plough the apricots those flirts of the sun. But bread above all. (1942):
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Arshile Gorky:
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When something is finished, that means it’s dead, doesn’t it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting – I just stop working on it for a while. I like painting because it’s something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I’m working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to – because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.(1947)
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..poor art for poor people (critic on social realism art)
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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
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Arshile Gorky:
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About a hundred and ninety-four feet away from our house (in Armenia, fh) on the road to the spring, my father had a little garden with a few apple trees which had retired from giving fruit. There was a ground constantly in shade where grew incalculable amounts of wild carrots, and porcupines had made their nests. There was a blue rock half buried in the black earth with a few patches of moss placed here and there like fallen clouds. But from where came all the shadows in constant battle like the lancers of Paolo Ucello’s painting? This garden was identified as the Garden of Wish Fulfilment and often I had seen my mother and other village women opening their bosoms and taking out their soft breasts in their hands to rub them on the rock. Above this all stood an enormous tree all bleached under the sun, the rain, the cold, and deprived of leaves. This was the Holy Tree. I myself don’t know why this tree was holy but I had witnessed many people, whoever did pass by, that would tear voluntarily a strip of their clothes and attach this to the tree. Thus through many years of the same ac, like a veritable parade of banners under the pressure of wind all these personal inscriptions of signatures, very softly to my innocent ear used to give echo to the sh-h—h-sh—h of silver leaves of the poplars.
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The stuff of thought is the seed of artists. Dreams from the bristles of the artist's brush.
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