Painting Quotes - Page 48

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Eloquence is the painting of thought.

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.

If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

I give away thousands of paintings for free.

Well painting is certainly my main thing. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life, but if I become famous I would maybe like to experiment with acting, or I have a good voice so maybe a little bit of singing. I'm going to take singing lessons, so who knows.

I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.

I love art. I used to have a painting of Mikhail Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev.

Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.

Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.

I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.