Painting Quotes - Page 11

• By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry , plot and narrative and character in fiction , the elite arts wrote off the vast majority of their audience . They purposely excluded people who approach art in part for pleasure and edification in favour of social one-upmanship and an ever-narrowing, in-crowd elite.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Character, People

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• I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Light, Hands, Sculpture

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

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• Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

  Edwin Land

  Photography, Art, Expression

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• We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

  Peter Weiss

  Running, Country, Kings

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• What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Flower, Liberty, Stories

  "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry" by Charles Altieri, (p. 169), 1989.

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• I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Taken, Breasts, Ifs

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes". Book by Tibballs Geoff, p. 80, 2012.

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• Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Beautiful, Nice, Blue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.

  Neil Burger

  Creating, Audience Of One, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

  Denzel Washington

  Color, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

  David Luiz

  Burning, Sometimes

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• It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

  David Luiz

  Fear, Artist, Strange

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• The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

  David Luiz

  Infinite, Possibility, Unification

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• Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

  David Luiz

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mean

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• If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

  David Luiz

  Black And White, Artistic Life, Trying

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• The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.

  Sara Genn

  Keys, Guidance, Timeless

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• Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.

  Sara Genn

  Creative, Joy, Feelings

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• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, What Matters, Pay

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• Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.

  Jim Rowe

  Communication, Discovery, Ideas

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• Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is so changed that there is no way of just visualizing it in the brain... It's a whole new dimension in painting.

  Jim Rowe

  Wall, Technology, White

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• I was painting her portrait in the little studio, and when I came to the eyes I stopped, overcome by emotion, and said to her, 'Have you understood me?' She nodded affirmatively. 'Will you be my wife?' I asked. She made the same affirmative sign.

  Jules Breton

  Eye, Wife, Overcoming

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• I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

  Nelson Shanks

  Real, Color, Years

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• If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one, then you want to go to museums. You want to study the great of the past.

  Nelson Shanks

  Past, Thinking, Museums

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• There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.

  Nelson Shanks

  Men, Games, Play

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• My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

  Nelson Shanks

  Careers, Bills, Clinton

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• The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Artist, Transition, Lines

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