Painting Quotes - Page 21

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

Every song is like a painting.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages of the mental process.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

In the middle 1940s... I heard everyone live. Painting, the theater; everything was happening. It was an exciting time when New York was the place to be.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share.

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.