Painting Quotes - Page 12

• Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

  Abe Ajay

  Indulge In, Immediacy, Appetite

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• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Wall, Done

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• I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

  Scott Kahn

  Wise, Thinking, Sake

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• My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

  Doug Dawson

  Art, Office, Watches

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• Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

  Charles Demuth

  Writing, Eye, Sight

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• The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Feels

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• Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Language

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• With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

  Joseph Raffael

  Art, Moving, Blood

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• I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

  Joseph Raffael

  Ideas, Way, Viewers

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• Painting is the subject of painting.

  Joseph Raffael

  Subjects

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• My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Communication, Two, People

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• I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Excellence, Lasts, Next

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• When I was doing just the underwater, I don't think people could relate to it at first. Then I added the land, which was a painting called, Two Worlds. For some reason that particular painting gave people something to hold onto.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Thinking, Land, Two

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• A good landscape painting is not just a demonstration of competent application of paint. It must offer a feeling of homage to the subject.

  Keith Shackleton

  Feelings, Landscape Painting, Demonstration

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• Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

  Pierre Coupey

  Light, Silence, Shadow

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• Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

  Joseph C Zinker

  Artist, Drawing, Persons

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• A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Beholder, Eye Of The Beholder

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• the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Drawing, Cities

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• Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Example, Would Be

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.196

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• Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong,
  Be it in music, painting, or in song:
  But this, as well as other faculties,
  Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

  John Armstrong

  Song, Rude, Age

  John Armstrong (1770). “Miscellanies;”, p.129

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• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

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• A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

  John Dryden

  Character, Farce, Action

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• Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

  John Dryden

  Real, Essence, Fiction

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The works of John Dryden in verse and prose”, p.329

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• Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

  John Dryden

  Art, Giving, Imitation

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.332

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• Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Art, Children, Sculpture

  James Freeman Clarke (1898). “Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883”

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