Painting Quotes

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

I have to make what I see, whether it's a painting, a table, or a movie, or it's like a death and what would be the point of that?

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were gutteral utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat. Those words were like flowers in a vase.

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a simple way to hopefully spread a little joy.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.