Painting Quotes

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I felt I was painting with a Popsicle.

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

I don't know if it was the whole audience getting stoned out of their minds getting ready for the Floyd thing or what it was, but it was like playing to a painting.

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.