Painting Quotes

Painting is a state of being.

The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

When I was painting, I was painting stories I was telling myself. When I look back at it, moving to writing was a very natural progression for me.

I'm so busy writing and editing two books a year that I don't have time for painting anymore.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.

(Landscapes) are too close to painting. And TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission. And you can't transmit a landscape, happily enough.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.

I've been painting and making things since I was little.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

There's something retro about the pop culture references in the paintings, so I'd imagine it's not as much a pop culture reference as a pop art reference.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.