Painting Quotes - Page 6

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

One never paints violently enough.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel.

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.