Painting Quotes

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.

I grew up doing some landscaping and painting houses and that kind of thing.

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

I painted myself out of my painting.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to go to art college." I didn't really know what that meant.

Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

I have sworn to die painting.

I wish to die painting.

I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

I did do, well before Pop Art, all the cartoon characters as paintings.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

I wanted to actually make people look at a painting. We don't look at paintings that much. We glance at them.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.