Painting Quotes

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.

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.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

Sculpture will last a lot longer than painting.