Painting Quotes

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not just painting or sculpture; it was everything mixed together.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

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.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Maybe da Vinci didn’t serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart