Best 1313 quotes in «painting quotes» category

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

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

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed.

Each painting seems to have a very specific size it wants to be. I have even started a painting or two over just because I didn't like the feeling of the particular image at a particular size. The Parlor needed to be large because I wanted it to feel like a full-size room you could step into. Unfortunately for me, I paint the same way on an eight-foot canvas as I do on a five-inch miniature. I still use very tiny brushes and noodle every square inch. It took me nearly a year to paint The Parlor.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting.

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

Every picture one paints involves not painting others.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.

Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I make the collages or the images for ideas that I want to paint, it's like an Ouija board. Each painting I do is trying to understand what the hell I'm looking at, or want to look at.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.

For me making a digital photo is like making a watercolor... It's not a painting, and it's not a photo. It's something altogether new.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

For me, the whole idea of the radically new is tied to a close reconsideration of older sources. I like to give myself over to those sources, as points of origin, in order to bring things forward. My approach requires me to internalize my sources as much as possible in the hope that new themes might emerge. The material has to be internalized in order for it to live again. Ultimately, paintings reveal themselves on the basis of what they are. They are inseparable from the physical process that goes into their making.

From today, painting is dead.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

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

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

God, I've frozen my ass off painting snow scenes!