Painting Quotes - Page 30

• I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

  Keira Knightley

  Drama, Book, Way

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Book, Hard Work

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Technology, People, Looks

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why would he bother to make the film? The only explanation would be that it would be an act of masturbation. I think that every creator is looking for a receptor. He's looking for an audience. There are two parts of the equation: a creator and, necessarily, the receiver of the work. It's the same thing for a painter who wants his paintings to be seen.

  Michael Haneke

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

  Ansel Elgort

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

  Edward Norton

  Color, Interesting, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

  Julian Schnabel

  Saxophone, Notes

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see the show, that it was my dream. And I just remember what the paintings look like in the dream and I think, "Oh, nobody painted those. I can do that."

  Julian Schnabel

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

  Julian Schnabel

  Dream, Kids, Might

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, Generations, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

  Julian Schnabel

  Friendly, Internet, Great Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

  Florence Welch

  Wall, Together, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Sometimes, Filmmaker

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Take two paintings by the same artist, one has a signature and the other doesn't. The signed picture is generally more valuable. The signature is almost graffiti or a tagging system, yet it can become more important than the subject.

  Gavin Turk

  Artist, Two, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.

  Gavin Turk

  Artist, Signatures, Backdrop

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

  Josh Smith

  Artist, Ideas, Skeletons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like when people have opinions - especially about art. You can hate my art. I made my art to be hated. That's why I made the name paintings.

  Josh Smith

  Art, Hate, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's like, "What do you mean? It's a flower!" But if you make a painting of your name and somebody says they hate it, it's like, "Well, why would you like a painting of my name anyway?"

  Josh Smith

  Hate, Flower, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Mean, Looks

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Robots, Kind

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at them, the look on the lady's face is like so clear and her body language and her posture or their physical situation is so immediately recognizable. Anyone who's been in a conversation they didn't want to have, or been getting harangued by a little kid they didn't want to pay attention to or been tired and wanted to go to bed is just like, "Yes, of course."

  Mallory Ortberg

  Art, Kids, Tired

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.

  Zakk Wylde

  Blue, Add, Looks

  Source: spotlightreport.net

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• To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life.  It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

  David McCullough

  Theatre, Would Be, Literature

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Children, Fun, Live Life

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• The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Fall, People, Interesting

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