Painting Quotes - Page 28

• Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

  Robert Hughes

  Sex, Landscape Painting, Novel

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• I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.

  John Dyer

  Four, Firsts, Interest

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• I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

  John Dyer

  Father, Artist, Drawing

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• To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sea

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• Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

  Francis Bacon

  Luck, Intuition, Stuff

  Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon, Marente Bloemheuvel, Jan Mot (1995). “Marlene Dumas, Francis Bacon: det unika med att vara en människa”

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• All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

  Francis Bacon

  Select, Accidents, Preserves

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• Writing is the painting of the voice.

  Voltaire

  Writing, Voice

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.170

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• If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

  Francis Bacon

  Looks, Return, Kind

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• I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

  Francis Bacon

  Thinking, Trying, Quality

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Men, Games

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• My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Beautiful, Love Is, Tree

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• I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

  Peter Wright

  Dirty, School, Mind

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• The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

  John Dyer

  Influence, Bigs, Vans

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• Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.

  Phillip Adams

  Home, Effort, Tree

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• I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

  Peter Wright

  Life, Class, Drawing

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• Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

  Kenneth Clark

  Orange, People, Looks

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• I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

  John Dyer

  Views, Use, Study

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• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  John Dyer

  Art, Growing Up, Father

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• Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

  John Dyer

  Fun, Long, Want

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• Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

  Peter Wright

  Art, Objects

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• I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

  Peter Wright

  Looks, Outcomes, Mark

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• From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with light his blended colors glow. . . . . The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.

  Lord Byron

  Spring, Home, Heart

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• You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

  Francis Bacon

  Want, Accuracy, Representation

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• Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

  Francis Bacon

  Interesting, Abstract Painting, Levels

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• It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

  Francis Bacon

  Communication, Doe, Hopeless

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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