Painting Quotes - Page 32

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.

I'm painting so much that I don't listen to much music. Because music is another creative outlet, it's a huge distraction for me when I paint.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

I always start a painting with the sky.

Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas, he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting, what do you see?... Is the picture one you think worth painting?... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.

Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

Not even pencil or charcoal is needed. Drawing can also be done with a brush. But drawing is a must, if not, no painting can resist.

I didn't paint my paintings to hang in some rich guy's living room.

My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now... I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.