Painting Quotes - Page 33

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Painting is the supreme form of expression; you don't need to 'read' painting.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

I have sworn to die painting.

Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.

I would be doomed if I didn't invent humor in my life. When I was young, I had all these punk and performance-art bands, dressed in costumes and painting the room and getting kicked out by police. Now when I perform I still feel the stage is more than just where you put your instruments. It's where you can do whatever you feel like.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

I've always seen process of crafting as part of the thinking process. It really forms the gestation of the work. I'll get an idea; I want to express this idea, sometimes I'll start it, but during the process of making the object - if it's an object or a painting - it changes. It never goes in a linear progression from A to Zed. It's always this kind of circuitous, stumbling, groping in the dark kind of process of evolving.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

I like to play with the conventions around what we expect of paintings historically. But I also like to play with the conventions that you expect from a Kehinde Wiley painting, too.

For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

My favourite painting is often the one or the collection that I am currently working on. This is probably due to the fact that I don't yet know where it will take me.

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.

Intensity is all that matters in painting.

All I'm doing is painting. It's my hobby. And that's that.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

The mind paints before the brush.

Painting is a state of being.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.