Painting Quotes - Page 16

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.

Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

In a painting, what counts is the unexpected.

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.