Painting Quotes
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
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If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.
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A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.
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I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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The main qualifications to the lesser position of painting is that advances in art are certainly not always formal ones.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette.
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Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
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Although I studied, I have never been taught painting because I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.
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I've been working in sculpture and painting since 1920.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories.. Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting
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An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.
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Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.
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As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
