Painting Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• 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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• The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely

  Jackson Pollock

  Arriving, States, Contemplating

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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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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• You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

  Mike Svob

  Strong, Drama, Eye

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• When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

  Carole Katchen

  Patience, Waiting, Way

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• We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Income, Needs, Tables

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The True Darcy Spirit: A Novel”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  Lance Henriksen

  Abstract Painting, Fantasy, Abstract

  "Lance Henriksen Interview SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 26, 2011.

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• A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Silence, Void

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.193, I.B.Tauris

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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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• On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
  [On painting and fighting look aloof.]

  George Herbert

  Fighting, Looks, Aloof

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• I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Want, Helping

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• It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

  Peter Doig

  Perfect, Interesting, Perfection

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The scope of art is practically boundless; it does not begin and end with the painting of pictures and the modeling of statues; where there is room for workmanship there is room for it.

  Lewis Foreman Day

  Art, Doe, Rooms

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• What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

  Peter Doig

  Way, Made

  "Record painter" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.

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• Content is more than 'subject matter.' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.

  Rene Huyghe

  Ideas, Feelings, Matter

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• I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

  Francoise Gilot

  Art, Writing, People

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• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  Ralph Allen

  People, Obvious, Feels

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• What makes you think painting is any less difficult than brain surgery?

  Christopher Willard

  Thinking, Make You Think, Brain

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• One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage.

  Christopher Willard

  Finishing, Cezanne, Unfinished

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• Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.

  Gunter Brus

  Art, Believe, Drawing

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Hands, Left Hand, Company

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• The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of creating a painting.

  Frantisek Kupka

  Creativity, Independent, Artist

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