Painting Quotes - Page 25

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I liked from magazines and books and combine them to make a "collage" kind of painting. In some ways, this is similar to how I work today.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

Without good drawing, the foundation of a painting will collapse.

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

I only feel, but want the power to paint.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.