Painting Quotes - Page 17

• The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Blood, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
  [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

  George Herbert

  Fighting, Looks, Aloof

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• The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

  Jackson Pollock

  Arriving, States, Contemplating

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Writing, School, Band

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• You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Air, Space

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• I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Want, Helping

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• It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

  Peter Doig

  Perfect, Interesting, Perfection

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Take Me, Elsewhere

  "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

  Peter Doig

  Interesting, Timeless

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• What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

  Peter Doig

  Way, Made

  "Record painter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

  Peter Doig

  Heart, People, Work Out

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• My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Moving, Unique

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• That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and in the first year it was like a broad visual arts course in sculpture, painting, graphics - all of that.

  Andy Serkis

  Art, Years, Firsts

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. January 27, 2003.

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• A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain. The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Differences, Tree

  1547 Letter to Benedetto Varchi.

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• I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Writing, People

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• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  Ralph Allen

  People, Obvious, Feels

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• Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

  Ralph Allen

  Stars, Occupation, Shooting

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• Make a child a painting and he'll be happy for a day. Teach a child to paint and he'll be miserable for a lifetime.

  Christopher Willard

  Children, Miserable, Lifetime

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• What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

  Christopher Willard

  Thinking, Make You Think, Brain

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• One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

  Christopher Willard

  Finishing, Cezanne, Unfinished

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• Without intent all painting is meaningless.

  Christopher Willard

  Purpose, Meaningless

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• Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.

  Gunter Brus

  Art, Believe, Drawing

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Hands, Left Hand, Company

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• A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Collections, Series, Corrections

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• For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Methodology, Painter, Flats

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