Painting Quotes - Page 37

It is true that the Drive-By Media is not spending a lot of time covering the Donald Trump Middle East trip. The reason is, they don't want to write or televise any of this because it's in such stark contrast to the pictures they've been painting of Trump. It's so incongruent. It's so inconsistent. In addition to all else, it is the protection of the Barack Obama legacy.

Usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes. I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and the colors around it and what it will really look like. It's only a guess at the beginning, and then I try to refine it.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Of course, my painting outfit has to be the focus of the shoot to promote a designer, or if I wear my own it will inspire someone's next collection!

I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.