Painting Quotes - Page 38

• In the landscape, colors are more neutral than you may think. Pay close attention to this. Small areas of rich color can make the whole painting look colorful.

  Matt Smith

  Thinking, Color, Looks

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• If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Cutting, Half, Ifs

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• The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

  Franz Kline

  Finals, Tests, Emotion

  "Conversations with Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, p. 106, 1961.

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• Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

  Rebecca Miller

  People, World, Ridiculous

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• My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, People, Choices

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• Tiger Woods is like a piece of fine art that belongs in the Louvre, and so, too, is Scott Medlock's painting of Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia...a true masterpiece!

  Al Michaels

  Art, Pieces, Woods

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• Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way. He is extremely generous as well. How many artists are willing to donate some of their best works to charity? The Texas Sports Hall of Fame has benefited greatly from Medlock's donated paintings, which are the cornerstones of our auction!

  Bob Lilly

  Sports, Artist, Unique

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• I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

  Willem de Kooning

  Looks, Might, Months

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• While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Running, Leader, Acting

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Alive, Irony

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• Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

  Ursula Vernon

  Teeth, Giants, Sometimes

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• You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

  Allen Lacy

  Wife, Rose, Austria

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• [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

  George Will

  Revenge, Writing, Giving

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• When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Book, Men

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.53, Grove Press

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• There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Design, Modern, Abstract

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• When in doubt, make a red painting.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Doubt, Red, When In Doubt

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• Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Darkness, Substance

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

  Thomas Eakins

  Color, Devil, Firsts

  Henry Adams, Thomas Eakins (2005). “Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist”, p.150, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.

  Terry Teachout

  Thinking, Practice, America

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

  Chantal Joffe

  Thinking, Magazines, Narrative

  Interview with Stella McCartney, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

  Chantal Joffe

  Thinking, Ideas, Paint

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

  Chantal Joffe

  Men, Clothes, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

  Chantal Joffe

  Daughter, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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