Painting Quotes - page 12

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. (Jenny Holzer)
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do. View quote
John Hurt
I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. View quote
Jacqueline Bisset
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. View quote
Julie Harris
People look at film in a gallery, and if they walk out after two minutes they know they haven't seen the whole work. But then people look at a painting for two minutes and think they've seen it. Certain paintings are made to be consumed fast. But some require a slowed-down time. You have to go back to them. View quote
Julie Mehretu
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. View quote
JWoww
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s. View quote
Kenneth Koch
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us. View quote
Kit Williams
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making. (Lindsey Buckingham)
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it. View quote
Larry Poons
A great painting is a great painting. View quote
Larry Poons
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. View quote
M. F. Husain
If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep. View quote
Mac Miller
I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting. View quote
Max Cannon
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions. View quote
Michelle Shocked
I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. View quote
Mike Thompson
My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. View quote
Nelson Goodman
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless. (Peter Doig)
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way. View quote
Peter Doig
It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting? View quote
Peter Doig
It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise. View quote
Peter Doig
I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline. View quote
Peter Doig