Paint Quotes - Page 15

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

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

The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

The substance of painting is light.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

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