After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.
Gustav Klimt
Related She glitters like she walked out of a Klimt painting JANDY NELSON Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art schoo... CAIO FONSECA Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves ... BRIAN ENO I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its ser... GARY HUME I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. ANDREW WYETH Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not... GARY HUME This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer'... EDVARD MUNCH I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're pa... JACKSON POLLOCK You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting i... CHUCK CLOSE If you look at a painting that you love by one of the great masters, every time you go back to it, y... RORY KINNEAR I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting. JAMIE WYETH At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting... JONI MITCHELL I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always... CECILY BROWN There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhi... RICHARD PHILLIPS Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Be... BO BURNHAM I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking a... DAVID SEDARIS In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's ... JOHN BERGER When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creati... BEN HARPER As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting... ALICE COOPER Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. PAUL CEZANNE That's one of the things I look forward to about an evening like this - someone to drink tea with at... AURORA GREENWAY I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting o... JACKSON POLLOCK Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photogra... AARON SORKIN When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted... JACKSON POLLOCK I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in som... DAVID BOWIE I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparen... GEORG BASELITZ I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to mak... MARTIN MULL I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a... DAVID ALLEE My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of... ERIC FISCHL Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed und... TAYLOR NEGRON I love Monet - I've nicknamed him King Blob. When you go up to the painting, it's a series o... CELIA IMRIE 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackso... HENRY FLYNT I was very impressed by Mrs. Burke because it's not a flashy painting. It's a religious painting, an... MIYEKO MURASE You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is gr... CHUCK CLOSE I was a stay at home mom so I could raise my three girls. It can take anywhere from 50-60 hours to d... ANDREA WARD Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with bru... DONALD JUDD There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had th... DIANA GABALDON I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. CATHERINE OPIE Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberatio... PHILIP GUSTON People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered w... GARY HUME I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has t... CAIO FONSECA But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fa... ROY LICHTENSTEIN I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it... JUNOT DIAZ I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending... ANDY ROONEY We are looking at not just a bacteria being active in one herd of pigs but over a fairly wide area, ... BOB DIETZ I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the... ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very ph... P. J. HARVEY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don... RICHARD DIEBENKORN I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the ... DAVID HOCKNEY I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been ... EMMA TENNANT I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring... DANA SCHUTZ The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone c... WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting... DAVID LYNCH I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this... DAVID LYNCH When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to ch... CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would... LANCE HENRIKSEN At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in... CHERIE LUNGHI I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That's therapy fo... BILLY WILLIAMS On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk ... JACKSON POLLOCK 'Art or anti-art?' was the question I asked when I returned from Munich in 1912 and decided ... MARCEL DUCHAMP Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stor... BEAU WILLIMON One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might de... GARY HUME For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career... JAMES CUNO For a long time we've had a very important collection of Monet works from every decade of his career... JAMES CUNO Technically, a makeup artist's canvas is the face and body. The difference is that my painting o... RICHARD PHILLIPS There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t... LARRY POONS My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange lit... CLIVE BARKER When someone buys a painting of mine and they fall in love with it, I hope they fall in love with it... JANE GILLETTE When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted... JACKSON POLLOCK 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, ... NORMAN ROCKWELL I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before ... A. S. BYATT I did the one with the big butt. They said they want something that looks like a Renoir with the fac... CHRISTOPHER MOORE There's one painting that historically would have been better, ... because it was painted at the beg... CHRISTOPHER MOORE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE We have to tackle these recommendations one evening at a time. We have to look at this with that lev... MAYOR MICHAEL HASSIG I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems t... KENNETH KOCH A beautiful painting can turn a moment of time into a timeless vision. JIM GENOVESE Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and ... JON FAVREAU I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time. JESSALYN GILSIG a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the inf... SAMUEL JOHNSON Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law o... BANKSY I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel r... FREIDA PINTO I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough ... CLAUDE MONET I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting... LOU DUVA At a similar time last year challenges faced this administration, and the governor rebounded with a ... CARLA BLANTON My second meeting with Vincent Starrett began on a cool Sunday afternoon in May of 1962. After a sho... PETER RUBER I love film - it's like painting. AZZEDINE ALAIA What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I se... TERRY TEACHOUT My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; i... VANESSA LENGIES Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple f... VICTORIA PENDLETON This is a great opportunity to show what was happening in Russia at the time (and) also painting sty... MALENA SATRE
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CARL GUSTAV JUNG Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. J. GUSTAV WHITE If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. CARL GUSTAV JUNG From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. CARL GUSTAV JUNG In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our for... CARL GUSTAV JUNG I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality CARL GUSTAV JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. CARL GUSTAV JUNG Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. CARL GUSTAV JUNG Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who loo... CARL GUSTAV JUNG Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood CARL GUSTAV JUNG Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my path violently and recklessly, all th... CARL GUSTAV JUNG What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and s... CARL GUSTAV JUNG There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion CARL GUSTAV JUNG The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of m... CARL GUSTAV JUNG The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases CARL GUSTAV JUNG The Christian West considers man to be wholly dependent upon the grace of God, or at least upon the ... CARL GUSTAV JUNG The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid CARL GUSTAV JUNG