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Painting Quotes

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

Art Experience Painting Looking You

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Effort People Painting Better Look

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

Achievement Me Painting Possible

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Time Painting Hard Terrible Very

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Art Painting Easy You Know How

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Painting World Cannot Does Plane

Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them.

Live Men Painting World Black About

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Painting American Landscape Sex

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

James Rosenquist

Painting Outside Learned Lot Tricks

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

Painting Thought Up Been Rembrandt

Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

Painting Song You Know Done Just

Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.

Light Painting Friends Unique Skin

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Maurice de Vlaminck

People Painting Start Generation Get

I can tell really early on in a painting if I'm going to toss it or not.

Painting Early I Can Tell Going

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Painting Above Painter Cares He

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Spiritual Painting Think Values

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Kathryn Bigelow

Painting Movement Film Conscious

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Great Woman Painting Mad Her Get

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

Me Painting Looks Finish Surprising

Writing plays supplied for me everything that painting didn't, which is the ability to tell stories in real time, in a real space, in three dimensions, in flesh and blood. I realized I had been trying to cram all this narrative into my paintings, but ultimately painting was a static medium. So it just opened up this whole new door.

Time Space Me Door Painting Writing

For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery.

Antonio Damasio

Ocean Joy Painting Small Look Ready

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

Israel Horovitz

Music Beach Painting Writing Theatre

People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!

Meredith Ostrom

People Painting Feel You Skin Say

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

Painting Back Made Object Finished

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