Painting Quotes

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.

Philip Guston
- Painting
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.

Mary Beard
- People
- Painting

Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.

Quentin S. Crisp
- Hand
- Hands
- Lines
Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Joe Bastianich
- Art
- Painting
- Wine
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

Brian Eno Roxy Music
- Music
- School
- Art
Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Brian Eno Roxy Music
- Time
- Music
- Space
The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered.

Pablo Picasso
- People
- Secret
- Curves
As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it Absolutely.

Vincent Van Gogh