Paint Quotes - Page 13

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I'll stick to painting as long as I can.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.