Painting Quotes - Page 5

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

A painting works only on the edge of not working. Then what is ungraspable comes near.

If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?

I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me.

In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.

I think I am beginning to learn something about painting.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,' I mean the painting in which the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock.

Painting is a strange business.

I never really separated painting and literature.