Painting Quotes

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I love painting.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Painting is a hobby for me.

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

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.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

I found I have to stay painting.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

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

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I have sworn to die painting.

I want to die painting.

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

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

The substance of painting is light.

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.