Painting Quotes

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

Painting taught literature to describe.

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let it behave openly.

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Some of us have the good fortune of some type of natural gift, whether it's playing tennis or painting or writing.

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

You stand in front of a great painting and your heart just opens and your mind expands about what's possible. That, to me, is a connection to what God is.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.