Quotes about paint
painting process possessed
More than a process, painting is being possessed... Philip Guston
paint possessing
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
painting states certain
What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.
painting argument begin-again
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.
painting meant-to-be
My paintings are not meant to be tasted. Max Ernst
painting
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience. Mark Rothko
painting music-is
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear. Miles Davis
paint ugliness
Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness. John Suckling
painting surface deny
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it. Helen Frankenthaler
painting artistic reason
Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons. Man Ray
painting states
Painting is a state of being. Jackson Pollock
painting canvas
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
paint
I do not paint nature. I am nature.
painting expressionism modern-art
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
painting problem no-problem
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.
painted somebody talk
All I do is talk to Husker fans, ... I've never painted for somebody who's not a Husker fan. Dave King
painting far-away form
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away. Robert Henri
painter deals stills
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?
painting stem contrast
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this. Roy Lichtenstein
painting language miles
I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words. Rosanne Cash
painter breaths pens
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath. Spalding Gray
painting problem abstract
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. Robert Motherwell
painter university percent
I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter. Rebecca Miller
painting
Nature engenders the science of painting Robert Delaunay
painting language luminous
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
painting idiocy
Basically painting is total idiocy. Robert Rauschenberg
painting familiar
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.
painting
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
painting paint timeless
You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum. William S. Burroughs
painting film very-happy
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films. Yves Saint Laurent
painter scholar
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt
painting figures strokes
Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes. Vincent Van Gogh
painting importance painter
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.