Painting Quotes

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

Painting is silent poetry.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

I want to die painting.

I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I think of [my photographs] as found paintings because I don't crop them, I don't manipulate them or anything. So they're like found objects to me.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.