Painting Quotes - Page 22

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

There is something intimate about painting I cannot explain to you ? but it is so delightful just for expressing one's feelings.

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Painting is an investigation of being.