Painting Quotes
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.
Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.
Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.
Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.
With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.
I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.
But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.
Drawing includes three and a half quarters of the content of painting... Drawing contains everything, except the hue
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.
In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.