Painting Quotes
People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.
In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.
I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.
I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.
In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.
The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
I usually draw in silence, but listen to music or public radio when I'm painting, after all the important decisions have been made.
Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!
We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.
I like strong/vulnerable interesting women, and then sometimes I like painting beautiful men, like Kurt Cobain, or Mr Darcy.
I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.
My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.
It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.
I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.
The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.
I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.
I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.
Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.
From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with a comedy twist to it.
I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.
There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.
In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.
