Painting Quotes - Page 8

Painting is something that takes place among the colors.

Painting is silent poetry.

I want to die painting.

My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

I'll stick to painting as long as I can.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult