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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.
I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.
My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.
I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas.
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words.
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.
I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.
When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.
There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.
I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting.
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.
Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.
I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.
The creative process obtains in all creative acts. So if I'm painting suddenly I'll see something that I didn't see before.
Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.
My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.