Painting

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Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Pablo Picasso

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Painting Purpose of art Art

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Pablo Picasso

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso n'est pas officier dans l'armee Francaise." Interviewed by Simon Tery. Les Lettres Francaise, 24 Mar. 1945.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

Pablo Picasso

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Painting Art

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Picasso, Pablo. Quoted in Life with Picasso, written by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. McGraw-Hill, 1964, pt. 6.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Eugène Delacroix

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Purpose of art Painting Art

Author

Eugène Delacroix

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Delacroix, Eugene. Journal entry. 22 June 1863.

Current Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Topic

Artistic process Creativity Painting Art

Author

Jackson Pollock

Source

Possibilities

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Pollock, Jackson. "My Painting." Possibilities, no. 1, Winter 1947-1948, p. 79.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Jackson Pollock

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Self-discovery Self-expression Artistic expression Painting Art

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Jackson Pollock

Source

Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Citation

Pollock, Jackson. Interviewed by Selden Rodman. c. 1956.

Resemblance reproduces the formal aspect of objects, but neglects their spirit; truth shows the spirit and substance in like perfection.

Jing Hao

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Topic

Painting

Author

Jing Hao

Source

Notes on Brushwork

Language

Chinese

Time

925 920s 10th century

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Original Citation

Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.

Current Citation

Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.

Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Self-acceptance Art as therapy Painting Art

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Robert Rauschenberg

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

Leon Battista Alberti

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Power of art Painting Art

Author

Leon Battista Alberti

Language

Latin

Time

1435 1430s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Original Citation

Alberti, Leon Battista. De Pictura [On Painting]. c. 1450, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting, translated by John R. Spencer. Yale University Press, 1966, bk. 2.

I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need.

Jim Dine

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Artistic expression Self-expression Vocation Painting Art

Speaker

Jim Dine

Source

Artnet

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Dine, Jim. "Lone Wolf: An Interview with Jim Dine." Interviewed by Ilka Scobie. Artnet, 28 June 2010.

Perspective is the bridle and rudder of painting.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Painting

Author

Leonardo da Vinci

Source

Journals of Leonardo da Vinci

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Italian

Time

1519 1510s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Da Vinci, Leonardo. Italian Manuscripts, Bibliotheque Nationale. 1519, MS 2038, Bib. Nat. 13 r.

Current Citation

Da Vinci, Leonardo. Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Poetry Painting Art

Author

Leonardo da Vinci

Source

A Treatise on Painting

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Italian

Time

1519 1510s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Da Vinci, Leonard. Tratto della pittura [A Treatise on Painting]. Raffaelo du Fresne, 1651.

Current Citation

Da Vinci, Leonardo. A Treatise on Painting, translated by John Francis Rigaud. Dover Publications, 2005.

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

Jing Hao

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Topic

Painting Art

Author

Jing Hao

Source

Notes on Brushwork

Language

Chinese

Time

925 920s 10th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.

Current Citation

Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.