Painting Quotes - Page 36

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

I like a lot of different kinds of movies, I like a lot of different kinds of paintings.

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

It's all about commerce. Movies are not made like paintings, where you can make them for free and put them at the side. Movies are supposed to make money.

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents life and the brushstroke represents the steps we take in life.

Apart from the traditional paintings I also dabble with a little photography.

Some people have recognized their friends in my paintings, but I'm not directly responsible for any hooking up as far as I know!

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's an image with a body and that body has to contain its spirit...What's behind it decides everything. How it starts will define how it ends.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.