Painting Quotes - Page 37

• My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high school and making as much [traditional] art.

  Alec Monopoly

  Mom, Art, School

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

  Herb Alpert

  Art, Moments, Power Of Now

  FaceBook post by Herb Alpert from Apr 26, 2017

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• One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?

  Cynthia Daignault

  Two, Space, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.

  Cynthia Daignault

  America, Fiction, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the paintings I was always interested in taking elements of space and the reality that we know and dissolving it into patterns.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Reality, Space, Elements

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Drawing, Goal

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  J. G. Ballard

  Honesty, Movement, Baudelaire

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• I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.

  Laura Owens

  Art, Book, Other Cultures

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

  Kelly Miller

  Art, Wall, Museums

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• The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.

  T. J. Clark

  Art, Half, Moments

  T. J. Clark (2015). “The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.

  Leanna Renee Hieber

  Two, Lovely, Mute

  Leanna Renee Hieber (2011). “Darker Still: A Novel of Magic Most Foul”, p.52, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• But in order to survive in this foreign world, I had to teach myself that love was very much like a painting. The negative space between people was just as important as the positive space we occupy. The air between our resting bodies, and the breath in our conversations, were all like the white of the canvas, and the rest our relationship- the laughter and the memories- were the brushstroke applied over time.

  Alyson Richman

  Laughter, Memories, Air

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.236, Penguin

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• The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.

  Michael Leunig

  Art, Done, World

  Michael Leunig (2013). “The Holy Fool: Artworks”, p.9, Allen & Unwin

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• Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.

  Adamo Macri

  Life, Art, Doctors

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• As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Growing Up, Children, Lying

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• I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then.

  Alec Monopoly

  Art, New York, Real

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

  J. J. Abrams

  Writing, Play, Drawing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.

  Stephen Beal

  Wall, Space, Examination

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake,
  and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they
  were painted.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Knowing, Long

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Memories

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• I enjoy thinking about how paintings can change depending on where they are - how they look in a gallery or in relation to other paintings, or in different rooms. Paintings can change the way we experience and see the world.

  Stephen Beal

  Thinking, Different, Looks

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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• All my album artwork is body painting.

  Kimbra

  Albums, Body, Artwork

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• Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

  Chris Martin

  Interesting, Abstract Painting, Abstract

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• Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).

  Matthew Collings

  Successful, Color, White

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• In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

  John Berger

  Men, Average, Oil

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