Painting Quotes - Page 28

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can never like what I do?

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

I want my paintings to have a light of their own, they must glow from inside.

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.

Painting and drawing has been here for 35,000 years.

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

Without intent all painting is meaningless.

Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.

I love films-they are like paintings.