Painting Quotes - Page 41

At the same time I really enjoy painting flesh.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's this dance back and forth. We were halfway through the dance. He died.

I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

I was always very... impatient about showing my paintings to people.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

Fiction is an expressionist painting rather than a photograph.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

Painting is the subject of painting.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

During my youth, I was fascinated by the colors of Van Goth's paintings

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

I studied painting, sculpture and video in both undergrad and grad school, but I've always been more interested in music and I've always admired music that can evoke a cinematic experience.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.

In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.

I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.

I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical things in the paintings just sort of happen. They aren't things I thought of in advance. They are more things I am given. What paint does, in watercolor more than oil but it happens in oil too, are things one never expects if you work freely. I suppose I learned a lot coming to this after years of playing improvisational music. I have to trust my intuition and I work in the moment, when that moment seems to be happening. And to leave it alone when it is not.