Best 1313 quotes in «painting quotes» category

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Painting completed my life.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

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

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.