Quotes about painting
paintings trying ways
The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings. Damien Hirst
paintings poignant
Those Degas paintings tell a story that's poignant and very dark,
painting found
I found I have to stay painting. Alan Bean
painting photoshop
Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting. David Hockney
painting speak
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves. Barnett Newman
painting easy difficult
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult. Edgar Degas
painting study hell
I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies. Edouard Manet
painting kind worst
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. Balthus
painting language knows
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. Balthus
painting vans ifs
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them. Bill Watterson
painting materials knows
Anything is good painting material once you get to know it. David Milne
painting related values
I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value... Mark Tobey
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 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. 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 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... Philip Guston
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. Philip Guston
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. Philip Guston
painting meant-to-be
My paintings are not meant to be tasted. Max Ernst
painting realistic vain
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. Blaise Pascal
painting eloquence
Eloquence is the painting of thought ... Blaise Pascal
painting admiration vain
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. Blaise Pascal
painting eloquence
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal
painting chapel creator
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor Edvard Munch
painting holes ten
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes. Edvard Munch
painting materials
Painting is so much more than the materials. Brian Johnson
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. Gerhard Richter