Painting Quotes
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I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.
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Through painting I try to get closer to nothingness, to the void.
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Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life.
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My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.
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I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
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When in doubt, make a red painting.
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The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.
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I am in a thousand pieces. Painting somehow makes me whole.
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It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.
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What the eye can see won't get us very far. And what it can see is so limited, so restricted. But a gouache or an oil painting can be seen at a glance, can take in a whole world at a single glance.
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In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
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There is only the present. A painting is an instant of time that has escaped oblivion.
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From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.
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Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
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If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.
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Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
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I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.
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Creating a painting is a matter of ensuring that all its parts achieve unity. Though it's a precarious, fragile unity.
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The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
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Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
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Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.
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Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.
