Painting Quotes

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

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.

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

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.

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

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

From today, painting is dead.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

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

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

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

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Every song is like a painting.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now, a lot of fans are painting their faces just so they won't be recognized.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

Painting is another form of thinking.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.