Painting Quotes - Page 20

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or another, according to the impressions gained from one point of view or another. But it is too difficult to make a general rule.

The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.

At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act of writing a text on a canvas, but in all my work, text turns into abstraction.

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.

Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and lows and my sense of them.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Painting is another form of thinking.

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?