Paint Quotes - Page 9

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

Painting is a strange business.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

I never really separated painting and literature.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I paint pictures which do not exist and which I would like to see.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

One never paints violently enough.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.