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Painting Quotes: "Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little."

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.



Painting Quotes: "The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely"

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely




Painting Quotes: "Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought."

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.



Painting Quotes: "Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is."

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.




Painting Quotes: "90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on."

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.



Painting Quotes: "Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort."

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.



Painting Quotes: "In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure."

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.




Painting Quotes: "My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.



Painting Quotes: "I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it."

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.



Painting Quotes: "I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya."

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.



Painting Quotes: "Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing."

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.



Painting Quotes: "I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.




Painting Quotes: "Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match."

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.



Painting Quotes: "And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting."

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.



Painting Quotes: "I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting."

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.



Painting Quotes: "He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves."

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.



Painting Quotes: "I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested."

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.



Painting Quotes: "When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account."

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.



Painting Quotes: "Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue"

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue



Painting Quotes: "All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing."

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.



Painting Quotes: "I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded."

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.



Painting Quotes: "A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share."

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.



Painting Quotes: "In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music."

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.



Painting Quotes: "There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting."

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.



Painting Quotes: "There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter."

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.



Painting Quotes: "I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days."

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.



Painting Quotes: "Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle."

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.



Painting Quotes: "The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.



Painting Quotes: "The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see."

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.



Painting Quotes: "T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress."

T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.



Painting Quotes: "If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel."

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.



Painting Quotes: "You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind."

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.



Painting Quotes: "The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful."

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.



Painting Quotes: "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."

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.



Painting Quotes: "If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning."

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.



Painting Quotes: "Painting is another form of thinking."

Painting is another form of thinking.



Painting Quotes: "I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up."

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



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

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



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

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



Painting Quotes: "But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that."

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.



Painting Quotes: "If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro."

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.



Painting Quotes: "The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess."

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.



Painting Quotes: "In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active."

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.



Painting Quotes: "I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file."

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.



Painting Quotes: "Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush"

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush



Painting Quotes: "I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated."

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.



Painting Quotes: "I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them."

I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.



Painting Quotes: "Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?"

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?



Painting Quotes: "In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time."

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.