Painting Quotes - Page 12

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.

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

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.

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.