Painting Quotes

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

Photography has always been a simple medium, compared to painting in oil or chipping at marble.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've always admired music that can evoke a cinematic experience.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Painting is the subject of painting.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

I studied shades, textures by painting after the Old Masters, the classical European paintings, as part of my educational process.

My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

All my album artwork is body painting.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

What I would hope to do is painting, because I don't think I'm qualified for anything else. My last job would be babysitting, so I don't think Starbucks would even hire me.