Painting Quotes - Page 11

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.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Paintings are painted with paint, not with ideas.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

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.

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.

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.