Painting Quotes

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting.

Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

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.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

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 art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

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.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

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.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

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.

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

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.

I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

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.

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.

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.

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.

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.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

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.