Painting Quotes - Page 13

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

For me, painting is like meditation.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

Did you ever see that painting the Mona Lisa. It always reminds me of a reporter listening to a politician.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Painting is a hobby for me.

You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.