Painting Quotes - Page 16

• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Wall, Done

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• Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

  Charles Demuth

  Writing, Eye, Sight

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• The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Feels

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• Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Language

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• With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

  Joseph Raffael

  Art, Moving, Blood

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• My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Communication, Two, People

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• I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Excellence, Lasts, Next

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• Poetry and painting continue to be companions: they cast their shadow and light, their silences and tones, at the edges of each other.

  Pierre Coupey

  Light, Silence, Shadow

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• I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Portraits, World

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Haskell, Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico) (1985). “Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe”, Museum of New Mexico Pr

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• The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

  Pablo Picasso

  Giving, Judging, Advice

  Pablo Picasso (1972*). “Picasso: 90 Drawings and Works in Colour”

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• A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

  John Dryden

  Character, Farce, Action

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• Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

  John Dryden

  Real, Essence, Fiction

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The works of John Dryden in verse and prose”, p.329

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• Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

  William Cowper

  Art, Quench, Claims

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1837). “The Works of William Cowper: Posthumous poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne. Translations of the Latin and Italian poems of Milton. Epigrams translated from the Latin of Owen. Translations of Greek verses. Translations from the Fables of Gay. Adam: a sacred drama, translated from the Italian of Andreini”, p.65

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• What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Sides, Ridiculous

  Henry Fielding (1902). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams”

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• Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

  Edmund Burke

  Art, Powerful, Passion

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.93, Penguin

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• There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Writing, Practice

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• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Secret, Excellence

  John Ruskin (1868). “Precious Thoughts, Moral and Religious”, p.155

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• What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in various combinations, make the styles: mixing and matching painting methods and ideas.

  Ed Askew

  Art, Ideas, Style

  Interview with Christian Filardo, logger.believermag.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Wit has as few true judges as painting.

  William Wycherley

  Judging, Wit

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.13, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Describing beauty is almost impossible because we perceive it, rather than describe it. If you look at a Rembrandt painting and start to try and describe what the beauty is you see, your words sound absolutely pathetic.

  John Lennox

  Trying, Sound, Looks

  Source: www.asenseofawe.net

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• Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Ongoing, Pieces

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really personal stuff that my friends have made, paintings that my husband's mother made, and things that I bought. I buy abstract art on eBay, and I buy some outsider art on eBay, or what is called folk art, I buy a lot of. I have a lot of professional art work as well as more stuff my friends' kids make. To have a wall of art to look at, I feel really surrounded by love, because so much of the work is related to my friendships.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mother, Art, Wall

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Years, Age

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• Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Lying, Believe

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• When you see Hitler burning paintings by Salvador Dali and Picasso he's telling you that this time period and these men and this culture didn't exist, and I've seen that happen in other countries, Sudan for instance, it's not enough to kill them you have to destroy all of their markings that they left that was their history.

  George Clooney

  Country, Men, Culture

  "The Monuments Men - George Clooney interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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