Quotes about painting
painting language film
Language is much closer to film than painting is. Sergei Eisenstein
painting
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience. Mark Rothko
painting meant-to-be
My paintings are not meant to be tasted. Max Ernst
painting someday get-back
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting. Max Cannon
painting eloquence greater
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. John Ruskin
painting
Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it. Milton Avery
painting people thinking verb
I want to reiterate that painting is a medium, it's a way of thinking and it's a way of seeing. I think people often think of painting as a noun, and I think of it as a verb as well as a noun.
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 painting-a-picture lots-of-money
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. Ralph Bakshi
painting
A poem is like a painting. Horace
painting function painter
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance. Gerhard Richter
painting wiser
My paintings are wiser than I am.
painting language difficult
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
painting endangered-species painter
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. Howard Hodgkin
painting
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries. Frank Gehry
paintings
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished. Cy Twombly
painting shows simpler
I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.
painting good-work painter
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them. Pierre-Auguste Renoir
painting pinching feels
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
painting states
Painting is a state of being. Jackson Pollock
painting canvas
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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.
painting transience
I like the transience of Klimt paintings. Steve Coogan
painting
Nature engenders the science of painting Robert Delaunay
painting language luminous
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
painting hell process
I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process. Philip Guston
painting process possessed
More than a process, painting is being possessed...
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 music-is
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear. Miles Davis
painting paint
With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. Joni Mitchell