Painting Quotes

• I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.

  

  Wang Jianwei
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Painting

• Only when painting isn't painting can there be an affront to modesty.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painting
  • Modesty
  • Affront

• Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Thought
  • Painting
  • Act

• One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Painting

• I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Bigs
  • Enthusiasm
  • Sunflower

• The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Powerful
  • Flats
  • Cobblestone

• Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Taking Away

• I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Painting
  • Painter
  • Landscape

• All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas Wolfe, or F. Scott Fitzgerald. Words and books have always meant a lot to me. That someone can take words and string them together to where they will move me is just a hell of a thing. It's amazing to me; more amazing to me than music or painting. It's always been the written word or the spoken word, like a great lecture or a great lyric, or a great poem. To me it's just amazing. And I always aspire toward capturing that, or my version of it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Book
  • Together
  • Moving

• Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. But there are some things that occur nearly in common.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Work
  • Painting

• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Language
  • Cinema
  • Combination

• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Dream
  • Education
  • inspirational

• If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Painting
  • Public
  • Percent

• Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Painting
  • Astonished
  • Bank Clerk

• Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.

  

  Milton Avery
  • Day
  • Painting
  • Absorbed

• If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

  

  Gary Panter
  • Different
  • Tired
  • Pushing

• Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Painting
  • Mood

• The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Clothes
  • Decoration
  • Tattooing

• I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light
  • Painting
  • Canvas

• A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

  

  John Singer Sargent
  • Painting

• Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Nervous System

• I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

  

  Euan Uglow
  • Painting
  • Emotion
  • Controlled

• We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the painting's being finished was very problematical. We'd more readily say that our paintings were finished and say, well, it's either a failure or it's not, instead of saying, well, maybe it's not really finished.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Painting

• Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

  

  Neil Welliver
  • Middle
  • Woods
  • Factors

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