Painting Quotes - Page 17

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

Making a record is like painting a school bus with a toothbrush

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

From today, painting is dead.

I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

I'm using the grid as formation. I wanted a relationship between the paintings and videos so that way when you are looking at the videos there's a direct relationship to the paintings.

A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Painting is a mosaic of colors weaved into a seamless whole.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.