Painting Quotes
Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.
I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.
While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.
You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.
I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
The media ... is like an oil painting. Close up, it looks like nothing on Earth. Stand back and you get the drift.
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results.
The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.
What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.
Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'
...photography can lie as convincingly as literature or painting. The angle, the selected content, the assumed context.
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.