Painting Quotes - Page 24

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

Photography is painting with light

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.

The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!