Painting Quotes

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

Somehow, the painting soothed him. It verified his fears. But it also informed him that fear was wonderful.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

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

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Painting is a hobby for me.

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

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

I hate painting.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

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

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.