Painting Quotes - Page 14

I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready made products we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'readymades aided' and also works of assemblage.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

I don't think the meaning in my paintings comes from just using broken dishes.

I think not knowing what to think of your paintings is a good place to be.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kind of 'realism'. The photograph has an abstraction of its own, which is not easy to see through.

A man posing for a painting.

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.