Paint Quotes - Page 8

If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

I paint what I think, not what I see.