Paint Quotes - Page 4

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It’s like having peas and no pod.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Why talk when you can paint?

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.