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If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

— Charlotte Rampling

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.

— Stephen Gardiner

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

— Willem de Kooning

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

— Caspar David Friedrich

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

— Jackson Pollock

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

— Bob Dylan

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

— Rene Magritte

I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.

— Margaret Keane

✗Opposing Perspectives

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

— Pablo Picasso

You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way... you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.

— Edie Sedgwick