Best 1313 quotes in «painting quotes» category

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

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

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

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.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Beauty has became a pejorative word in art. It was not something one should aspire to, because it was pedestrian. Beautiful things became cheap and easy. If it's cheap and easy, then upper classes aren't going to aspire to it. So, they have to find something more esoteric. I wanted the paintings to be realistic enough that you would have the ability to forget that I'm showing them to you.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.

At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.