Painting Quotes - Page 45

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Piano performances by Condoleezza Rice are better than Hitler's paintings.

I work on a political subject quite often, and the paintings, for me, are not finished until they're printed.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as a dazzlingly skillful advocate for the medium he has chosen to embrace.

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'

Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.