Painting Quotes - Page 7

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They’re like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.

I want painting to be my flashlight.

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.