Painting Quotes

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

I found I have to stay painting.

I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

I am such a bloody talented guy. I might go into painting or something like that.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

Paint right into the darkness. While painting in these conditions the mind shifts gears, engaging the unconscious. Unique 'insights' happen in the dark.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.

In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

I make sure I make a painting - that's my job. And I cook the Sunday dinner.

I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.