Paint Quotes - Page 12

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Painting is silent poetry.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

I want to die painting.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.