Painting Quotes - Page 35

The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.

I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and that was a masterpiece. You have to do a whole bunch of paintings to get to the place of mastering your craft.

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded.

Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.

Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

I enjoy painting and can copy almost anything.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Painting demands an intelligent model.

There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?

In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink.

I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.

I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump out into your future. That kind of action is more like a direction. It's that same thinking that brought me to New York.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.