Painting Quotes - Page 40

• Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Color, Darkness, Substance

  da Vinci Leonardo, Leonardo (da Vinci) (1990). “Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists”, Running Press Book Publishers

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• Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!

  Bill Bonner

  Art, Real, Careers

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• I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.

  Wade Guyton

  Computer, Files

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.

  Terry Teachout

  Thinking, Practice, America

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• I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

  Chantal Joffe

  Men, Clothes, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

  Chantal Joffe

  Daughter, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started getting really curious about art. I read about the Dadaists and the Futurists and the Constructivists - those kind of movements which were reflecting the angst of the people of their times. Their work was trying to lead a movement. I began thinking about what was happening, with painting on the streets and painting on the trains as being similar but also coming from a real, pure space. It wasn't being created by academies. It was a spontaneous combustion of ideas that just happened.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.

  Karel Appel

  Children, Passion, Night

  "Karel Appel's excerpt", c. 1953.

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• Sometimes I find myself at three o'clock in the morning painting something and throwing things around and seeing what works. I'd like to properly study fine art. I think it would be quite an interesting endeavor.

  Ben Schnetzer

  Art, Morning, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think about my art works as paintings, because they refer to the history of painting. I also have to think about them as sculptures, because every part of the process is part of the project. They're sculptures because they play on the idea of what should be hanging in a gallery. In that sense they're also kind of ready-mades.

  Cory Arcangel

  Art, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting.

  Albert Camus

  Albert Camus (2012). “Exile and the Kingdom”, p.129, Vintage

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• The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.

  Joni Mitchell

  Mother, Fire, Nine

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• In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Deals, Huge

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• Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Breathing, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “To Music”

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• Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

  Michele Cassou

  Writing, Done, Sake

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin

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• Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

  Michele Cassou

  Art, Passion, Creation

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• Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

  Michele Cassou

  Eye, Space, Support

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.147, Penguin

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• The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Creating, Want

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• My paintings are only the ashes of my art

  Yves Klein

  Art, Ashes

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• For me, going back to itinerant landscape painting, it's not about returning to an older method, but about building on what happened in the 20th century in photography. And also highlighting what the differences are between a painting and a photograph in picturing space.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Photography, Differences, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dance, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Harvard University Press

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• What has reason to do with the art of painting?

  William Blake

  Art, Reason

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• I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

  Dylan McDermott

  Heart, Character, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

  John Lennon

  Mistake, Sound, Revolution

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm a creative person and I use painting, acting, writing, writing songs, or whatever, as tools to just get a point across, in order to communicate a story or an emotion.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Song, Writing, Order

  Source: collider.com

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