Painting Quotes - Page 30

Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't have to tell you a story.

I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake, I don't really have a problem with it. You're not looking at an original piece of art anyway: when it gets scanned for printing it becomes digital.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Rock & roll is like a painting. Can great paintings still be done? It depends on who holds the brush.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

Painting is a jeu d'esprit.

Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

I'd rather be home alone, painting.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of the work. But my starting point is always the language of painting itself and how that relates to the subject matter.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.