Top Painting Quotes Collection - Page 2
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The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.Collection: Painting
Painting is an investigation of being.Collection: Painting
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.Collection: Painting
I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.Collection: Painting
The painting is usually finished before you are.Collection: Painting
I have always been concerned with painting that simultaneously insists on a flat surface and then denies it.Collection: Painting
If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.Collection: Painting
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.Collection: Painting
I make paintings really slowly because I change them and change them and change them and change them and change them. I don't really know how to not do that. I'm not very free in a way. Even though it looks free. But it's not.Collection: Painting
It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.Collection: Painting
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.Collection: Painting
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.Collection: Painting
I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.Collection: Painting
Painting is the subject of painting.Collection: Painting
A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.Collection: Painting
I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.Collection: Painting
For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.Collection: Painting
A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.Collection: Painting
Painting is something that cannot be destroyed, it must destroy itself to reinvent itself.Collection: Painting
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.Collection: Painting
I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.Collection: Painting
I can't let things go when it comes to stop painting. It has to be my way.Collection: Painting
I do acrylic paint, oil paint, and caustic. Caustic is melted wax. It really depends on the painting, what vibe I'm looking for. That's really what matters.Collection: Painting
Generally paintings are about technique, but I don't see myself as a painter. I am more of a storyteller and an image - maker.Collection: Painting
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.Collection: Painting
I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.Collection: Painting
I will do a lot of research and create a lot of material for use in one painting. And then I go on discovering and working with a whole other range of material in another painting. I'm interested in a fairly comprehensive and orchestrated synthesis that might bring about a new situation consisting of this hidden material. I'm interested in hidden source material.Collection: Painting
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.Collection: Painting
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.Collection: Painting
Painting is a state of being.Collection: Painting
Painting is a jeu d'esprit.Collection: Painting
Basically painting is total idiocy.Collection: Painting
It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.Collection: Painting
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.Collection: Painting
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.Collection: Painting
Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.Collection: Painting
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.Collection: Painting
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]Collection: Painting
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.Collection: Painting
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.Collection: Painting
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.Collection: Painting
Eloquence is the painting of thought.Collection: Painting
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.Collection: Painting
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.Collection: Painting
I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.Collection: Painting
What has reasoning to do with painting?Collection: Painting
A poem is like a painting.Collection: Painting
In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.Collection: Painting
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.Collection: Painting