Painting Quotes - Page 35

• Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

  Francis Bacon

  Feelings, Special, Emotion

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• The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

  Paul Kane

  Memories, Lying, Two

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• Intensity is all that matters in painting.

  John Piper

  Matter, Intensity

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• Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

  John Locke

  Art, Memories, Practice

  John Locke, James Augustus St. John (1872). “Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understanding”, p.37

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• It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

  Robert Hughes

  Mean, Analysis, Madness

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• Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

  Robert Hughes

  Keys, Ideas, Doubt

  Robert Hughes (2013). “The Shock of the New”, p.30, Knopf

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• In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

  John McLaughlin

  Way, Sound, Use

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• I started hiding my paintings in certain ways, like behind panes of glass for example. Then, instead of hiding them I did something quite cold and clinical: I built a wooden box, filled it with enamel paint and dunked the painting in so you could only see a suggestion of it from a controlled point of view.

  Oliver Jeffers

  Views, Glasses, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

  William Friedkin

  Antiques, Want, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors.

  Edward Norton

  Color, Interesting, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

  Michael Ian Black

  Children, Book, Hard Work

  "Michael Ian Black on his surprising turn as a noted children's book author". Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

  Bob Proctor

  Beautiful, Dream, Said

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• I got starstruck not by someone who is famous, but by someone who's famous in the miniature painting community. When I was a kid, I used to paint miniatures. There were famous people in the miniature community from forums online. I went to some big event and I saw them in real life and I was so starstruck.

  Ansel Elgort

  Real, Kids, People

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

  Julian Schnabel

  Dream, Kids, Might

  Interview with Mark Grotjahn, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

  Julian Schnabel

  People, Generations, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more.

  Florence Welch

  Wall, Together, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that.

  Taika Waititi

  Thinking, Sometimes, Filmmaker

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

  Josh Smith

  Artist, Ideas, Skeletons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

  Jim Shaw

  Isms, Way, Stores

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Mean, Looks

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

  Damien Hirst

  Thinking, Robots, Kind

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life.  It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

  David McCullough

  Theatre, Would Be, Literature

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Fame never interested me. I could have exhibited more of my own works in the 1970s, but I didn't want to. It's sort of like being a child. When you're finished with school, you have only one thing on your mind: to get out and experience life. Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Children, Fun, Live Life

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• Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Eye, Goal, Creative

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• You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Love Picture, Love You, Artist

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Röbel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

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