Painting Quotes - Page 16

• Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Song, Children, Cutting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Eye, Exercise, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A piece of art - this goes for a painting or a sculpture or a book or whatever - really shouldn't have to do with the set of expectations that the viewer or the audience or the reader brings to that work. It should just have to do with how they interpret it and whether they like it or not.

  Max Kellerman

  Art, Book, Expectations

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

  Steve Martin

  Two, Needs, Done

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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• It's not fiction's job to be photographically representative of reality. If I want to make a fictional world where there's no kindness, this doesn't mean I believe there's no kindness in the real world. In fact, what it may mean is that I very much value kindness. Like if you make a painting in which only greens are allowed, it wouldn't mean you don't believe in blue.

  George Saunders

  Jobs, Kindness, Real

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• The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

  Sherman Alexie

  Art, Kids, Drawing

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Believe, Thinking, Feelings

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• In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

  Mike Todd, Jr.

  Circles, Problem, Masters

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• Though painting borrows help indeed from colours... it has nothing more wide of its real aim or more remote from its intention than to make a show of colours... to raise a separate and flattering pleasure to the sense.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Real, Helping, Pleasure

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• The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

  Mike Svob

  Light, Elements, Shapes

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• All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

  Mike Svob

  Reality, Ideas, Abstract

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• When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Watches, Looks

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• By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

  Mike Svob

  Moving, Contrast, Areas

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

  Mike Svob

  Language, Symbols, Particular

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• Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.

  Mike Svob

  Book, Thinking, Reason

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• You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

  Mike Svob

  Strong, Drama, Eye

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• Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

  Melissa Brown

  Greatness, Should

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• When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

  Carole Katchen

  Patience, Waiting, Way

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• We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Income, Needs, Tables

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Mean, Focus, Acting

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• I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Home, Class, Portraits

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• In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  Lance Henriksen

  Abstract Painting, Fantasy, Abstract

  "Lance Henriksen Interview SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 26, 2011.

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• Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, Teach

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• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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