Painting Quotes - Page 6

• Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

  Peter Doig

  Believe, Mean, Purpose

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  I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Believe

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• When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

  Joan Miro

  Firsts, Canvas, Knows

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• I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

  Robert Genn

  Jobs, Thinking, Records

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• I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

  Meher Baba

  Heart, Color, People

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• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

  Horace Pippin

  Art, Mind, Pippin

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• I think everybody starts out by seeing a few works of art and wanting to do something like them. You want to understand what you see, what is there, and you try to make a picture out of it. Later you realize that you can't represent reality at all - that what you make represents nothing but itself, and therefore is itself reality.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture.

  James Elkins

  Art, Hands, Color

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

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• I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Thinking, Contentment

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• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

  Claude Monet

  Motivational, Art, Color

  Claude Monet (1969). “Claude Monet”

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• I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

  George Frederic Watts

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Painting is silent poetry.

  Plutarch

  Art, Silent

  Plutarch, John J. Keaney, Robert Lamberton (1996). “Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer”, p.307, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The painting has a life of its own

  Jackson Pollock

  Inspirational, Art, Intuition

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Bridges, Mind, Hundred

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• If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

  Harvey Dunn

  Life Is, Empty, Ifs

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• I communicate my innermost perceptions through art.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, Perception, Communicate

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• So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

  Pharrell Williams

  Air, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Pharrell Williams from Apr 06, 2012

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• Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

  James Elkins

  Artist, Color, Speak

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• If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

  Karel Appel

  Art, Age, Avant Garde

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• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

  Agnes Martin

  Forever, Perception, Mind

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