Painting Quotes
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In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.
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Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
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And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
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Each painting is linked to a fundamental drama.
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I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
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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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There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
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If you didn't know what you were trying to do, Robert von Neumann wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and walk away. So you very quickly learned to think that you'd better be attempting to do something in that painting class.
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Painting is being alive. Through my painting, I beat back this world that stops us living and where we are in constant danger of being destroyed.. .No, you have to know when to keep silent.
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My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each mark, and the interval between each mark must give something back on its own terms.
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Yes, I abandoned everything. Painting required it. It was all or nothing.
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He who has learned what is commonly considered the whole art of painting, that is, the art of representing any natural object faithfully, has as yet only learned the language by which his thoughts are to be expressed.
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Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
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My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.
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I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.
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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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Painting is a hobby for me.
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
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My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
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It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.
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The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.”
