Painting Quotes - Page 18

• Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Successful, Reality

  Patrick Swift (1993). “PS -- of Course: Patrick Swift, 1927-1983”

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• Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

  Susan Minot

  Way, Sometimes, Moments

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• Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

  Teddy Thompson

  Mean, Artist, Chance

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• It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don't need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.

  Steve Martin

  Two, Needs, Done

  Source: bolstablog.wordpress.com

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• There's a spectrum of possibilities. You can underline the bass, or not at all. You can create something that is well-anchored or that is floating and never arriving. You can make a melodic line dominant or barely visible. The conducting gesture is akin to painting or sculpture.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Lines, Gestures, Bass

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Laurence Equilbey, logger.believermag.com. There Will Be Joy.

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• There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Eye, Exercise, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.

  Sherman Alexie

  Art, Kids, Drawing

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• I believe that one should not think too much about nature when painting, at least not during the painting's conception. The colour sketch should be made exactly as one has perceived things in nature. But personal feeling is the main thing.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Believe, Thinking, Feelings

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• In Zen brush-painting, the circle is a master's problem. It represents everything and nothing, and in so doing, the universe.

  Mike Todd, Jr.

  Circles, Problem, Masters

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• I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Reason, Form, Wells

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• The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

  Mike Svob

  Light, Elements, Shapes

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• All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

  Mike Svob

  Reality, Ideas, Abstract

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• By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.

  Mike Svob

  Moving, Contrast, Areas

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

  Melissa Brown

  Greatness, Should

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• Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

  Peter Doig

  Interesting, Timeless

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• I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Mean, Focus, Acting

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• I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Home, Class, Portraits

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• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Blood, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Take Me, Elsewhere

  "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Writing, School, Band

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• If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

  Peter Doig

  Heart, People, Work Out

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• We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.

  Kevin Rudd

  Art, Rocks, Europe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Air, Space

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