Painting Quotes - Page 34

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

I like fishing, I like painting; I like painting fish.

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

Each painting is fresh and new, a surprise even to myself.

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

What has reasoning to do with painting?

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.