Painting Quotes

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

Painting completed my life.

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a big change but you know there's novels I've read or a scene in a film that I've seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliche like make a phone call.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

I want to die painting.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

The substance of painting is light.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.