Painting Quotes - Page 18

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

Each painting evolves freely and independently.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't.

I think only of my painting, and if I were to drop it, I think I'd go crazy.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

My paintings are the last paintings one can make.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

There is no standard way of using painting techniques.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.