Painting Quotes

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

As far as paintings go, I always think about what it's like to move them and hang them up and hope they don't drop. To me, that seems like a big gamble, but that comes from me not being a painter.

You come back to the beginning. That's why in the "Searching for the Ox" sequence, at the very end of that sequence of the Zen paintings, we're back in the world again.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

Never paint your wife or your mother.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."

I love to paint. It's more of a hobby, but people love the paintings so much that I end up selling whatever I paint.

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

The gospel word of the day can become like a painting on the walls. of your inner room, the inner room that is your heart.

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.