Top Painting Quotes Collection
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I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.Collection: Painting
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.Collection: Painting
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.Collection: Painting
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.Collection: Painting
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.Collection: Painting
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.Collection: Painting
Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.Collection: Painting
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.Collection: Painting
My paintings are wiser than I am.Collection: Painting
I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.Collection: Painting
A painting is not made to be sniffed.Collection: Painting
Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.Collection: Painting
Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it.Collection: Painting
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.Collection: Painting
Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.Collection: Painting
I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.Collection: Painting
If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting.Collection: Painting
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.Collection: Painting
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.Collection: Painting
I love movies, don't get me wrong. But I don't go to the cinema. I see movies at the end of the year as a glut from the Academy. I binge-watch all the nominated films. Painting fills that void now. It's oils. It's acrylics. It's figurative, portraits and landscape.Collection: Painting
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.Collection: Painting
I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.Collection: Painting
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.Collection: Painting
The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.Collection: Painting
Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.Collection: Painting
Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.Collection: Painting
Painting is so much more than the materials.Collection: Painting
God is God and I am not. I can only see a part of the picture He's painting.Collection: Painting
I love films-they are like paintings.Collection: Painting
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.Collection: Painting
I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value.Collection: Painting
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.Collection: Painting
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.Collection: Painting
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.Collection: Painting
One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.Collection: Painting
A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.Collection: Painting
When I hesitate, I do not paint. When I paint, I do not hesitate.Collection: Painting
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.Collection: Painting
Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.Collection: Painting
Nature engenders the science of paintingCollection: Painting
When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.Collection: Painting
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about.Collection: Painting
My paintings are not meant to be tasted.Collection: Painting
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.Collection: Painting
Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.Collection: Painting
Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.Collection: Painting
The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.Collection: Painting
I like to paint paintings that I haven't seen.Collection: Painting
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.Collection: Painting