Painting Quotes - Page 5

• Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

  William Baziotes

  Art, Way, Evolve

  William Baziotes, Michael Preble (1988). “William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984”

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• One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Painter

  "The Portable Cervantes".

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• Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Illumination, Produce, Painter

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• I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

  Prince Charles

  World, Dimensions, Another World

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• Painting is very interesting.

  Sam Waterston

  Interesting, Very Interesting

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Sam Waterston". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. July 12, 2004.

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• Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

  Asger Jorn

  Tasks, Currents, Accomplish

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Art, Attitude, Thinking

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• I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

  Arshile Gorky

  Mind, Twenties, Finishing

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  Wolf Kahn

  Cezanne, Information, Subtle

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• I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done a drawing of souls in Purgatory for the Bishop of St. Gata, he, in order to spend less, commissioned another painter to do the painting using my work. If I were a man, I can't imagine it would have turned out this way.

  Artemisia Gentileschi

  Men, Order, Drawing

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• The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.

  Andrew Forge

  Cutting, Skins, Half

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• Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.

  Edward Betts

  Mean, Artist, Waiting

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• Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and memories, each painting evolves freely and independently.

  Fernando Araujo Perdomo

  Memories, Unique, Feelings

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• Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

  Don Farrell

  Goal, Creative, Process

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• Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

  El Greco

  Speculation, Universality

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• What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

  Matthew Collings

  Past, Today, Serious

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• At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Reality, Way, Infinite

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• Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Practice, Judgement, Brushes

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• What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.

  Arnold Friberg

  Hands, Musical, Trying

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• Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Weather, Surface

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Knowledge, Doe

  "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century". Book edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

  John Olsen

  Art, Mean, Self

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• Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Copying, Realizing

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• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Soul, Saws, Paint

  Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

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• Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  Max Ernst

  Reality, Discovery, Amusement

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