Painting Quotes

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.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

Painting is situational. And my particular situation exists within gender, race, class, sexuality, nation.

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

I paint my own reality.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

A painting is not made to be sniffed.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.