Quotes about painting
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 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 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
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
Nature engenders the science of painting Robert Delaunay
painting language luminous
Painting is by nature a luminous language. Robert Delaunay
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. Robert Rauschenberg
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
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. Vincent Van Gogh
painting collecting should
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about. Walter Annenberg
painting reasoning
What has reasoning to do with painting? William Blake
painting golden-rule
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie. Wayne White
painting best-picture painter
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also. Ralph Waldo Emerson
painting theory these-days
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting. Tom Wolfe
painting easier sells
It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale. Steve Martin
painting i-can
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting... Steven Curtis Chapman
painting transience
I like the transience of Klimt paintings. Steve Coogan
painting enjoy copies
I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything. Vinny Guadagnino