Painting Quotes

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

When painting the faces of young persons ... use the yolk of the egg of a city hen, because they have lighter yolks than those of country hens.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.

Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.