623 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants. Gary Hume

Me Painting Mine Says Always Doing Go Wants Informing Servant

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. Gavin Bryars

The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?' Gavin Hood

Myself Character You Soul Book Be True Painting Adapting Medium Would Spirit Something Never True Like Look Another How Question Person Ask Asked Create Sculpture Describe Why

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry. Gene Luen Yang

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. Georg Baselitz

Painting About Attacked Feel Always Asked

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. Georg Baselitz

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. Georg Baselitz

Generation Father Painting Every Despised Admired More Fact Had Like Because Always Were Precisely In Fact Loved European Paintings Expressionist

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. George Bernard Shaw

Fire National Painting Would Course Door Which Gallery Nearest Save

The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples. George Edward Woodberry

Art Age School Will Fall Painting Drama Distinctive Restricted Seems Examples Poetry Lifetime Schools Likewise Periods Within Limit Greek Often Spanish Victorian Century Sculpture Cycles Pope English Vigorous Serve Growth Two

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. Georges Rouault

Life Me Painting Way Laugh Cry Forget Strangled Night

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. Gerhard Richter

Painting Think Worse Worst Worst Thing Hospital Observation Than Being Thing

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people. Gerhard Richter

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting. Gerhard Richter

Painting Changed Paperwork Structured Proportions Hours Always Been Eight Now

Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it. Gia Coppola

Good You Better Painting Once Those Tried Bored Pretty Nails Mess Looks Because Sticker Always Were Sally Up Very Than Get Little Really Your Fun Professional Found Things

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. Giorgio Armani

Woman Painting Dress Wanted Who Works Lives

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react. Greil Marcus

You Painting Way Demands React Going

After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. Gustav Klimt

Time Tea Painting Gathering Back Instead Bowling Go Very Dusk From Time To Time Often After Storm Large Villages Evening Session

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. Gustave Courbet

Art Painting Consist Only Real Concrete Existing Representation Essentially Things

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