Painting Quotes

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

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

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

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.

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

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Sunlight is painting.

Painting completed my life.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

Easel painting means small painting.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

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

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.