Quotes about painting
painting
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience. Mark Rothko
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. Jackson Pollock
painting expressionism modern-art
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. Jackson Pollock
painting problem no-problem
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting. Jackson Pollock
painting painting-a-picture lots-of-money
Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. Ralph Bakshi
painting language film
Language is much closer to film than painting is. Sergei Eisenstein
painting influence vans
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.
painting distinction
I make no distinction between poetry and painting. Joan Miro
painting
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. Joan Miro
painting fleetwood-mac macs
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. Lindsey Buckingham
painting seducing convince
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince. Lucian Freud
painting making-money made
I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money. Julian Schnabel
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 collapse
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images. Paul Auster
painting selling difficult
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few... LeRoy Neiman
painting
Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully. Pierre Loti
painting consciousness shameless
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. Kazimir Malevich
painting
A great painting is a great painting. Larry Poons
painting
Painting is a jeu d'esprit. Pablo Picasso
painting dies
I have sworn to die painting. Paul Cezanne
painting eloquence greater
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. John Ruskin
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
painting disaster changing-my-life
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it. Eddie Cahill
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
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