Still Life Quotes

• It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Appreciate

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• Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

  Richard Corliss

  Beauty, Artist, Essence

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• La vida sigue siendo vida. Sigue siendo dura, complicada y más que un poco desordenada, con lecciones que aprender, errores que cometer, triunfos y decepciones que sufrir, y no todos los días están destinados a ser una fiesta.

  Alyson Noel

  Disappointment, Mistake, Party

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• ... life, by definition, is never still.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Definitions, Stills

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.90, Dial Press

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• My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

  William C. Wright

  Light, Shadow, Painting

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• I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

  Jacob Collins

  Drawing, Feelings, Musical

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  La fotografía toma un instante del tiempo, altera la vida deteniéndola.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspiración, Vida, Cambio

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• Still ending, and beginning still.

  William Cowper

  Life, Stills

  William Cowper (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq., Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author, from the Edition of Robert Southey”, p.222

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• I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Important, Able, Painting

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• ¿Qué diferencia hay entre mirar una fotografía o una naturaleza muerta? Sigues teniendo que mirar.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Differences, Doe

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• The successful painter is continually painting still life.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Successful, Painting, Painter

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• Still, life had a way of adding day to day

  Virginia Woolf

  Way, Stills, Day To Day

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

  Giorgio Morandi

  Art, Privacy, Kind

  Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (2007). “Giorgio Morandi: works, writings and interviews”, Poligrafa Ediciones Sa

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• Los recuerdos son como un bodegón pintado por diez estudiantes diferentes: algunos serán de color azul, otros de color rojo; algunos serán tan crudos como Picasso y otros tan ricos como Rembrandt; algunos estarán en escorzo y otros distantes. Los recuerdos dependen del ojo del espectador; nunca habrá dos iguales uno al lado del otro.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Eye, Artist

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.497, Simon and Schuster

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• En mis fosas nasales aún vive el aliento de las flores que perecieron hace veinte años.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Years, Twenties

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Ears, Sound

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.264, Xist Publishing

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• I put it [picture "A still life of a pear" by Edouard Manet] there [on the wall, next to the picture "Jupiter and Thetis" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres], for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

  Edgar Degas

  Wall, Artist, Jupiter

  Edgar Degas' remark in a conversation with the writer Moore (circa 1875), as quoted in Sue Roe "The Private Lives of the Impressionists" (p. 117), 2006.

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• What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Landscape, Figures

  "Matisse en el arte".

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• landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

  Patricia Hampl

  Stories, Landscape, Beloved

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

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• Cuando modelas, estás creando una imagen, una naturaleza muerta, tal vez algo parecido a una película muda. Transmites emociones, pero sólo utilizas tu cuerpo.

  Helena Christensen

  Silent Films, Creating, Body

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

  Virginia Woolf

  Hot, Way, Sun

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.96, Broadview Press

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• Cuando un jugador de ajedrez mira el tablero, no ve un mosaico estático, una "naturaleza muerta", sino un campo magnético de fuerzas, cargado de energía, como Faraday veía las tensiones que rodean a los imanes y las corrientes como curvas en el espacio; o como Van Gogh veía vórtices en los cielos de Provenza.

  Arthur Koestler

  Stress, Player, Curves

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• I'm going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen's baskets. Then I'm going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost - unfortunately - I have to earn some money.

  Claude Monet

  Money, Firsts, Size

  Claude Monet (2014). "Monet por sí mismo: Pinturas, Dibujos, Pasteles, Cartas", Chartwell.

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• No murió de ningún achaque, de ninguna ráfaga,
  sino que cayó como un fruto otoñal que ha madurado mucho tiempo:
  Incluso sorprendido, porque no cayó antes.
  El destino parecía haberle dado cuerda durante ochenta años;
  Pero corrió fresco diez inviernos más;
  Hasta que como un reloj gastado por el tiempo,
  Las ruedas de la vida cansada al fin se detuvieron.

  John Dryden

  Life, Fate, Autumn

  "Oedipus: A Tragedy".

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• I loved you ere I knew you; know you now,
  And having known you, love you better still.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, I Conde de Lytton

  Life, Love You, I Loved You

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