"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live."

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"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live."

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"One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters."

Painting,

"I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life."

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"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."

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"I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall."

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"I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there."

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"I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you."

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"A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere."

Painting, Sculpture

"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it."

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"When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out."

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"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."

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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Socrates, Greek Philosopher

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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."

Barack Obama, American President

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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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