Painting Quotes

I started billboard painting in Minneapolis, and I went to General Outdoor Advertising, and I said, 'I could do that.' They said, 'Oh yeah... we can always use a good man around here.' James Rosenquist
Good Man Good Man Painting Minneapolis Outdoor General Could Advertising Around Said Always Yeah Oh Oh Yeah Use Billboard Here Started
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting. James Rosenquist
Time Good Strange Good Time Become Painting Think Frustrating Things Start Peculiar
I started out with projected-light works and working indoors, but I'd prepare the walls - by sanding, etcetera - the way you'd prepare a canvas for painting. James Turrell
You Walls Painting Way Out Indoors Canvas Working Works Prepare Started
Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that. Jamie Wyeth
God You People Wait Sit Field Painting All Night Chat Lazy Lazy People Come Know Attracts Sort Lot Up Just Painters Things Night
To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving. Jamie Wyeth
Me Painting Dancer Dancers Always Doing Oxymoron Moving
Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience. Jamie Wyeth
Painting Individual Performing Audience Profession
After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself. Jane Seymour
Myself Me Calm Lose Painting Panic Took Out Could Absolutely Divorce Mode After Place Serene
If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. Janet Malcolm
Great You Painting Photograph Find Scratch Things Two
I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor. Janet McTeer
Life Win Lose Painting Think Slightly Rather Than Oil Large Watercolor
I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Somebody Holding Painting Head Underneath Chicken Where
Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc. Jeff Ament
Life Music Learning Writing School Punk Painting Living Related Took Punk Rock Out Above Student Lifetime Liked Rock Still Doing Lot Stoked Being Different Skateboarding Skating Etc Your Different Things Things Mediocre Consequently
Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her. Jennifer Lawrence
Day Me You Every Day Girl Naked Nothing Painting Every Seven Months Those Kind Bizarre Guys Sacred Over Like Got Were Close Hands Going You Guys Anymore Really Pairs Her Imagine
I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. Jenny Holzer
Painting Other Otherwise Unless Worrying See Slowly About Detest Seldom Put Stuff Testing Up Quickly Artists Things
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't! Jenny Holzer
People Joke Painting Think Lately Fabricate Finger Piece Which Then Should Who Competent Started
I like to think of my work and the way people approach it in the same way people approach a Lichtenstein painting. You can write a one-hundred-page dissertation about why he used comics. Or it could be like, 'This is cute!' Jeremy Scott
Work You People Cute Painting Think Dissertation Approach Way About Could Write He Like Comics Same Used Why
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus. Jerry Saltz
Art Me Painting Virus Tell Between New Days Like Look Around Go Artist Artists Should
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years. Jerry Saltz
Painting Rage Van Van Gogh Ten Only Ten Years Years Die Gogh After Against Needing
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. Jerry Saltz
Sad Life Art Group Painting Lately Has-Been Collection Pretty Fact Sad Fact Contemporary Been Modern Modern Art Bar Low Shows Set Museum
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. Jerry Saltz
Picture Painting Think Relief Abstract Very Low Thing
Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of. Jerry Yang
Art Nature Technology Innovation Rare Beauty Style Painting Find Both Pushing Boundaries New Contemporary Contemporary Art Moving Capable Creates Unique Paintings Profound
I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb. Jessi Klein
World Mouth Painting Every Sick Evoking Picasso Crumb Proust Goes Sculpture Who Novel Each Need
I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities. Jessica Stockholder
Love Painting Way Possibilities Full
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. Jessica Stockholder
Skin Painting Plumbing Wiring Nails Houses Fiction Paint
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. Jhumpa Lahiri
Speak Matter Soil Job Live Painting Plenty Characters About Only Like Enabling Shift Suspense Fiction Information Them Breathe Conveying Sentences Certain
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. Joan Miro
Character Me Painting Minimum Give Attaining Feel Greater Led Maximum Intensity Which Means Even Need
Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting. Jodie Foster
History Appreciation Hurt Understanding Painting Having He Knowing Came The History Of Where Your Paint Painter Uses
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