Painting Quotes
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Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
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But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?
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I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.
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When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.
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Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.
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All gardening is landscape painting.
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Wine pricing is an art - like painting.
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The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
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We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.
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I love to play with textures and colors. I mix them together like I would in a painting.
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The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
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I've been painting since I was a kid.
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Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
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My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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These collages were static symmetrical constructions, portico's with pathetic vegetation, the gateway to the realm of dreams. They were done with colored paper in black, orange or blue dye plates. Although cubist painting interested me very much, not a trace of their influence was to be found in my collages.
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With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.
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Easel painting means small painting.
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I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man – myself – lives in a museum.
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I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.
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'I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's a clever anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.'
