Painting Quotes - Page 27

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a Willem de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas." At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking at, but when I look at a de Kooning painting, I know what that is." I said, "Well, the paintings I'm doing have a very legible sentence at the top of the canvas."

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.

Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

My Paintings are Battles.

The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.