Painting Quotes - Page 3

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.