Painting Quotes - page 71

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. (Jackson Pollock)
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. View quote
Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. View quote
Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. View quote
Jackson Pollock
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. View quote
Jackson Pollock
My painting does not come from the easel. View quote
Jackson Pollock
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well. View quote
Jackson Pollock
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. View quote
Jackson Pollock
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. View quote
Jackson Pollock
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. View quote
Jackson Pollock
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. (Jackson Pollock)
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting. View quote
Jackson Pollock
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke. View quote
Vikram Seth
For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery. View quote
António Damásio
The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song. View quote
Dave Matthews
Genius is its own reward for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself.... Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius it is their patent of nobility. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. View quote
John Berger
Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something. View quote
John Berger
I love painting and have a need to do it. View quote
Emma Watson
Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is. View quote
Larry Mullen
Painting is as close as a person can get to actually capturing the heat of the moment. (Sylvester Stallone)
I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. View quote
Jodie Foster
The only influences in [the painting 'The sick Child', Munch painted in his elderly home, remembering very accurate the last days of his dying little sister Sophie] 'The sick Child'.... were the ones that come from my home.... my childhood and my home. Only someone who knew the conditions at home could possibly understand why there can be no conceivable chance of any other place having played a part – my home is to my art as a midwife is to her children.... few painters have ever experienced the full grief of their subject as I did in 'The sick child. View quote
Edvard Munch