Painting Quotes - Page 5

• Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

  William Baziotes

  Art, Way, Evolve

  William Baziotes, Michael Preble (1988). “William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984”

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• I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.

  Arshile Gorky

  Mind, Twenties, Finishing

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• Painting is very interesting.

  Sam Waterston

  Interesting, Very Interesting

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Sam Waterston". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. July 12, 2004.

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• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  Salvador Dali

  Tattoo, Art, Personality

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• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Portraits, Doe

  Quoted in Esar A Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951).

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• Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

  El Greco

  Speculation, Universality

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• Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

  Pablo Picasso

  Pain, Artist, Color

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• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Color, May

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3307, Delphi Classics

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• One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Painter

  "The Portable Cervantes".

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• The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

  Paul Klee

  Art, History, Should

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• Painting is a visceral experience, one loaded with subtle information. Only Cezanne could get away with a system.

  Wolf Kahn

  Cezanne, Information, Subtle

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• I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

  Prince Charles

  World, Dimensions, Another World

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• I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Dream, Scary

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Art, Museums, World

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• Sunlight is painting.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Pain, Sunlight

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1986). “Portable Hawthorne”, Outlet

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• Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.

  Edward Betts

  Mean, Artist, Waiting

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• At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Reality, Way, Infinite

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• Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Illumination, Produce, Painter

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• What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

  Matthew Collings

  Past, Today, Serious

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• Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Weather, Surface

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Knowledge, Doe

  "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century". Book edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

  John Olsen

  Art, Mean, Self

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• Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Copying, Realizing

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• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

  Alexej von Jawlensky

  Soul, Saws, Paint

  Alexej von Jawlensky, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen (1994). “Alexej von Jawlensky: 25/9-27/11/1994, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam”, Univ of Washington Pr

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• Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

  Max Ernst

  Reality, Discovery, Amusement

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