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The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

— Frank Auerbach

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.

— Caspar David Friedrich

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I wanted to express or deal with differences that an all-over paint and canvas 'presence' neutralized.

— Richard Diebenkorn

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

— Balthus

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

— Edward Hopper

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

— Francisco Goya

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

— Pablo Picasso

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

— John French Sloan

Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

— Helen Mirren

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

— Paul Cezanne