Mary Heilmann famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.
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Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.
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One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.
-- Mary Heilmann
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The poet lives as long as his lines are imprinted on the minds of his readers.
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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
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What I did for my last act as a painter, if you call me a painter, was to photograph the weave of the canvas, and enlarge it and enlarge it until it became like a landscape.
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I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.
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Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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I found I have to stay painting.
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I always start a painting with the sky.
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