623 Painting Quotes for You to Enjoy

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The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Me Painting Sleeping Bore Going Downstairs Nuisance

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. Henry Flynt

Music Time Painting Harvard About Student Abstract Well Well Known Known Learned Were Jackson Where So-Called Avant-Garde Expressionism

I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure. Hilton Als

Me Painting Think Collaborative Something More Colors Exchange Generally Abstraction Feel Feels Like Sure Always Subject Than Sitter Often Just Whereas Interested Aspect Connected Portraits

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

Me Painting Else Finish Looks Surprising Anyone Anyone Else

I hate painting. Howard Hodgkin

Hate Painting

Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making zines and stuff. I thought I was too punk for art and felt grossed out by white-room galleries and art people. Hunx

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps. Ian Gillan

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. Ikue Mori

Music Try Painting Books Way Visual Compose More Inspiration Bottom Bottom Line Like Ideas Line Hear Get Maybe Just Want Movies Create Paintings Basically

I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college. Imelda May

Christmas Art Cause College Face First Singing Live Painting Windows Cleaner Had Doing Been Art College Shops Worked Garage

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing. Irving Stone

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me. Irving Stone

Me School Old Brilliant Down Painting Design Guess Find Marvelous Color Layers Through Picasso Like Content Came Began Any Human Stop Old School Successfully

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot. Isaac Marion

Work Music Time Book Writing Band Painting Abandon Would Give My Time Split Between Quit Decided Gallery Then Shot Used Show Serious Eventually Start Album

I feel that, as an actor, you're constantly working to become better, which I love, but with painting, I can fail on my own terms. There's a freedom in that, so that's why I love to paint. J. August Richards

Love Freedom You Better Become Own Painting Constantly My Own Fail Feel Terms Which Working Paint Actor Why

I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes. J. C. Chandor

Great Me History Science Photography Theatre School Painting Drama Took Saw High Classes Some High School Something Had Highly Like Because Got Motivated Math Math And Science Subjects Grades Decent Arts Really English

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai. J. G. Ballard

War Abstract Art Art Me Strange World Key Painting Threat Seemed Postwar Shanghai Abstract Reminded Well Cubism Ambiguity Offer Modern Childhood Movement Whole Nuclear Nuclear War

Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. J. M. Roberts

Creative Gardening Culture Painting Flower Drama Anarchy Overall Most Periods Greatest Arrangement Culmination Arts Japanese Japanese Culture Skill Landscape Appeared

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. Jackie DeShannon

Me Will Big Painting Follow See Perfectly New Know Said Always How Go Very Want Interested Works Stark Muse

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. Jackson Pollock

Me Painting Kind He Drove His Realism Hard Right

When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out. James Frey

Art Me Whatever Painting Thinking Out Telling See Seeing Someone Feel Go Front Want Gallery Should Stand Figure

To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use a computer when I write, and I don't use a piano. I'm at a desk writing, and it's very broad strokes and notes as colors on a palette. James Horner

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films. James Ransone

Myself Good Feel Good Result Skin Painting Living Films Characters Find More Taking Feel Likable Pictures Catharsis Always Making Lot End Up Get Short Short Films Playing

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside. James Rosenquist

Painting Tricks Outside Learned Lot

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