Painting Quotes
Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.
For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.
My paintings at their best take that vocabulary and attempt to transpose that into a form that gives respect not only to the history of painting but also to those people who look and sound like me.
I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect from a Kehinde Wiley painting, too.
If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.
I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.
I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Picasso had nicknamed Georges Braque "Wilbur," thereby becoming "Orville" in their Wright Brothers-like ambition to get painting off the ground of conventional representation.
I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.
Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.
Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.
The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.
Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.