Paint Quotes - Page 18

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

Paint faster than you can think.

I paint with my back to the world

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

I've just kept on ceaselessly painting in order to learn painting.

I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.