Painting Quotes - Page 15

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

Sunlight is painting.

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.