Paint Quotes - Page 16

The modern painter…is an excellent couturier

I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Keep painting your demons.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't think it was the end of the world. I also thought of it as a kind of structure, a base to build on. So this proves I can do this and that, and they don't collapse, so then what can I do from here? How can I build on it?

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

Everyday's a good day when you paint

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.