Painting Quotes - page 11

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious. (Andrew Wyeth)
It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. View quote
Aime Cesaire
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. View quote
Balthus
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. View quote
Balthus
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. View quote
Balthus
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. View quote
Balthus
As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. View quote
Caio Fonseca
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind. View quote
Chico Hamilton
We share a huge visual memory bank, mostly through painting and other images in history. I think when a modern photograph taps into those, sometimes very subliminally, it makes people respond. (Chris Hondros)
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively. View quote
Chris Ofili
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. View quote
Cleo Moore
Painting and writing are solitary arts. View quote
Conrad Hall
My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting. View quote
Deborah Kass
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. View quote
Diane Wakoski
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am. View quote
Danny Huston
It used to be that if you stood in front of a painting you didn't understand, you'd have some obligation to guess. Now you don't. View quote
Dave Hickey
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint. View quote
Ellie Kemper
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen. View quote
F. Murray Abraham
I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa. (Grimes)
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. View quote
Georg Baselitz
I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard. View quote
George Eads
The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. View quote
Ikue Mori
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. View quote
Janet Malcolm