Painting Quotes - Page 3

• The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Pain, Photographer

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.82, Macmillan

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• There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

  Mark Rothko

  Artist

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  Balthus

  Struggle, Self, Criticism

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• The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.

  Mervyn Levy

  Inspiration, Artist, Materials

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• Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

  Gerhard Richter

  Differences, Abstract Painting, Example

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Oct 28, 2015

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• Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important.

  Gerhard Richter

  Important, Quality, Language

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• A Painting without emotion is like a tree without roots.

  Ray Wilkins

  Roots, Tree, Emotion

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• On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Two Sides, Ease

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Art, Pain

  "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911

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• Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Vanity, Strange

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• He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

  Horace

  Dolphins, Woods, Wave

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 576-77, Ars Poetica, XXX, 1922.

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• For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

  Georges Rouault

  Art, Night, Laughing

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• Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

  John Singer Sargent

  Funny, Art, Truth

  Quoted in Evan Esar, A Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Carpe Diem, Thinking

  In John Golding Cubism (1959) p. 60

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• Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, World, Painter

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

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• In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

  Paul Gauguin

  Suggestions, Done, Description

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• Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

  Rembrandt

  Art, Nature, Grandchildren

  "Rembrandt Drawings" by Paul Némo, translated by David Macrae, 1975.

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• Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Real, Water, Sculpture

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiration, Doubt, Enthusiasm

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.

  Igor Babailov

  Real, Moving, Splits

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• There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

  Philip Guston

  Mysterious

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• The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

  Robert Breault

  Eye, Hands, Needs

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• What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Artist, People, Giving

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• There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Civilization, Drawing

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