Painting Quotes

I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it.

There is no perfect painting and there is no perfect solution.

Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

My method is subtraction. I use erasers to make the images in my paintings. You really have to see it to fully get it, but it is basically erasing shapes from a background of paint.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

I like when people get really close to the paintings, when they can't really get away from them, I like them to operate in that way on the viewer.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

When in doubt, make a red painting.

I have been painting models with black and brown skin only for the past years. So, I did already have this experience, this is how I have come to the paintings I do now.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

A play is a painting that moves. Instead of it holding still, and you are looking at it, you hold still and it scrolls by.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.